I myself wanted a setup like this several months ago and settled on setting up 2 Ubuntu systems with internal 2TB hard drive. One at home and one at my remote location. I share the drive over my local network with Samba. (The drives themselves are formatted ext3 or ext4, but that hardly matters to the rest of the network once they are shared.) (To later support Mac OS X you could try getting afp working, but it will still happily mount samba also, which is what I do with my mac.) Which is fast enough to serve video, and means I don't have to lug a drive around the house. And I periodically run Unison to keep the systems in sync over SSH. Even pre-mirroring the drives, Unison takes a day or so to run the initial sync. But after that first run, the syncs are pretty quick. At the moment I am manually running the GUI Unison, but I plan on eventually switching to the command line version and automating it in a cron task.
The ideal solution seems to be to cover the software but not the device in these instances. Fits the only for medical purposes rule and eliminates the fraud to get a device problem.
The article is about Medical Insurance (HMO's, etc) paying for consumer devices such as iPhones and software to run medical uses, such as a speech generator for those that cannot speak for themselves. Currently they will pay for expensive, more customized devices. THIS ARTICLE IS NOT SPEAKING AT ALL ABOUT REPLACEMENT OR LOSS INSURENCE!
Or you could port it as a jailbreak app, duh! Another benefit of the spftware being open. Besides, I am sure there are many other open source software tied to proprietary development environments. If you don't like it you are free to untie it!
Ah, but a chair only has a finite lifespan. So if it falls apart after 3 years of normal use I would probably not be responsible for fixing it. Although you may tell all your friends that I make crappy chairs.
On the other hand YOU can buy a screwdriver at any hardware (or most dollar stores even) to fix the chair.
The real issue is that I have persuaded congress to make it illegal for you to buy the screwdrivers that fix the chairs I sell. And now I am saying that I should not be expected to keep any of the screwdrivers around either. And even if no one has the right tools to fix the chair YOU still can't build one.
No, but they are allowed to attempt to repair it if it does get scratched. This is all that is being asked for. A DMCA exemption that gives the right to strip DRM from files after a store's authentication servers are no longer operational.
In other words, the ability to repair our "scratched" DRM music files.
well, it's not just HP either. I did tech support for Sony for a while and they had similar policies, support is only for the factory Os. And if you call tech support for warranty service, they will have to troubleshoot, which may include an ffr (full format and reinstall). Obvious issues can be fixed without an ffr, but can you imagine the cost of support if we paid for shipping both ways and the technician in san diego to do the ffr every time some windows noob insisted their computer was "broke" when it was full of spyware!?!??! According to the article, all the lady has to do is restore the original os, which shouldn't be a problem, because she needs to back up the data in case the factory restores the os on her anyway!
No one is saying that Napster is right or wrong (well, some people, but) most of the posts are simply saying that the study being used is not conclusive enough and many other factors can also cause the declines described, and propbably do affect the declines described. There are actually some people that buy more cd's because MP3's. I have bought many more cd's in the past couple years due to being interested in music more due to MP3's... That doesn't mean that I have bought CD's for all of my MP3's, but some of them I have. (Although mostly used cd's... which aparently weren't included in the study)
> I think winzip extracting the document is still reverse engineering, or so the courts would say, because you are purposely bypassing the agreement. But suppose you instead used Stuffit Deluxe (Macintosh) or gunzip (Unix) because you could not otherwise view the contents of a compressed.EXE file... oops, nevermind... this is Microsoft World, everyone uses Windows!
Hmmm, It's about time we thank Intel for creating such advanced CPU's... Today I reverse engineered the virus in question (shhh, don't tell the MPAA, the'll sick the DCMA after me!) and changed the molecular structure of my CPU into gold!:-) Tommarrow I'm using my gold bar to buy a better computer!
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I myself wanted a setup like this several months ago and settled on setting up 2 Ubuntu systems with internal 2TB hard drive. One at home and one at my remote location. I share the drive over my local network with Samba. (The drives themselves are formatted ext3 or ext4, but that hardly matters to the rest of the network once they are shared.) (To later support Mac OS X you could try getting afp working, but it will still happily mount samba also, which is what I do with my mac.) Which is fast enough to serve video, and means I don't have to lug a drive around the house. And I periodically run Unison to keep the systems in sync over SSH. Even pre-mirroring the drives, Unison takes a day or so to run the initial sync. But after that first run, the syncs are pretty quick. At the moment I am manually running the GUI Unison, but I plan on eventually switching to the command line version and automating it in a cron task.
The ideal solution seems to be to cover the software but not the device in these instances. Fits the only for medical purposes rule and eliminates the fraud to get a device problem.
The article is about Medical Insurance (HMO's, etc) paying for consumer devices such as iPhones and software to run medical uses, such as a speech generator for those that cannot speak for themselves. Currently they will pay for expensive, more customized devices. THIS ARTICLE IS NOT SPEAKING AT ALL ABOUT REPLACEMENT OR LOSS INSURENCE!
Or you could port it as a jailbreak app, duh! Another benefit of the spftware being open. Besides, I am sure there are many other open source software tied to proprietary development environments. If you don't like it you are free to untie it!
Ah, but a chair only has a finite lifespan. So if it falls apart after 3 years of normal use I would probably not be responsible for fixing it. Although you may tell all your friends that I make crappy chairs.
On the other hand YOU can buy a screwdriver at any hardware (or most dollar stores even) to fix the chair.
The real issue is that I have persuaded congress to make it illegal for you to buy the screwdrivers that fix the chairs I sell. And now I am saying that I should not be expected to keep any of the screwdrivers around either. And even if no one has the right tools to fix the chair YOU still can't build one.
No, but they are allowed to attempt to repair it if it does get scratched. This is all that is being asked for. A DMCA exemption that gives the right to strip DRM from files after a store's authentication servers are no longer operational.
In other words, the ability to repair our "scratched" DRM music files.
well, it's not just HP either. I did tech support for Sony for a while and they had similar policies, support is only for the factory Os. And if you call tech support for warranty service, they will have to troubleshoot, which may include an ffr (full format and reinstall). Obvious issues can be fixed without an ffr, but can you imagine the cost of support if we paid for shipping both ways and the technician in san diego to do the ffr every time some windows noob insisted their computer was "broke" when it was full of spyware!?!??! According to the article, all the lady has to do is restore the original os, which shouldn't be a problem, because she needs to back up the data in case the factory restores the os on her anyway!
T-Mobile also has 850 coverage now through roaming agreements.
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No one is saying that Napster is right or wrong (well, some people, but) most of the posts are simply saying that the study being used is not conclusive enough and many other factors can also cause the declines described, and propbably do affect the declines described. There are actually some people that buy more cd's because MP3's. I have bought many more cd's in the past couple years due to being interested in music more due to MP3's... That doesn't mean that I have bought CD's for all of my MP3's, but some of them I have. (Although mostly used cd's... which aparently weren't included in the study)
> I think winzip extracting the document is still reverse engineering, or so the courts would say, because you are purposely bypassing the agreement. But suppose you instead used Stuffit Deluxe (Macintosh) or gunzip (Unix) because you could not otherwise view the contents of a compressed .EXE file... oops, nevermind... this is Microsoft World, everyone uses Windows!
Hmmm, It's about time we thank Intel for creating such advanced CPU's... Today I reverse engineered the virus in question (shhh, don't tell the MPAA, the'll sick the DCMA after me!) and changed the molecular structure of my CPU into gold! :-)
Tommarrow I'm using my gold bar to buy a better computer!