Re:Slashdot: News for thieves. Like ethics matter.
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But you aren't really gaining new services by doing this. An extra phone jack will allow you use a phone in another room, but it will not allow you to use phones in separate rooms for separate calls. Therefore, you aren't stealing from the phone company if you add a phone jack to your house.
splitting your cable also allows you to watch tv in different rooms, why should you only be able to watch tv in your living room? Adding extra phones allows multiple people in one house to join in on one conversation using multiple phones, by your reasoning, that would be bad as well. if they didn't want you to split the cable, they would make it so its not possible to split it. in my area its perfectly legal to split the cable once it enters your house, i doubt some many people would be willing to pay $40 a month if it wasn't, perhaps in some areas your sign a contract not allowing to split your cable, but here its just fine and its common practice, the cable installer will even split it for you if you want.
Re:Slashdot: News for thieves. Like ethics matter.
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i dunno.. i think if its in your house you could probably justify doing whatever you want with it. Kinda like how you can splice your phone line and add extra wall plugs even tho the phone co would be happy to send a tech out to wire a simple plug for $50+
does this really deserve a/. story? Its been pretty obvious for the last few years to anyone with cable internet that its exactly the same cable you already had in your house with a cable modem attached to the end of it. Only prob with splitting it off is that it kills your bandwidth something fierce when you start watching tv while you are online
You are necessarily ruining the books, you could easily have them rebound (like old hardcover books at the library often are) or spiral bound. A lot of people cut the binding off of tech books and have them spiral bound so they lay flat without closing.
For example, I'm from Brazil, where the driving age is 18. This means that driving is an extremely adult thing. It's not taken lightly. People don't drink and drive as much. The culture is different.
exactly, the culture is different. In America, the the drinking and driving is mostly done by people who are already of legal age to drink, not by the people just learning to drive..
Hasn't this already been posted here once or twice already.. this is one of the few sites I get net news at, and I know I've heard this several times..
I think if it were me, I would have filled in the huge gaps at the top with blank squares to make it have a nice shape so that it could be used in a dining room or something.. all that work for an oddly shaped table makes it hard to show off well.
realplayer is just a complete bitch for this, which is why i don't use it. ever. i'm also quickly getting fed up with quicktime's 'UPGRADE TO QUICKTIME PRO', adobe's "THERES MORE TO ACROBAT THAN JUST READER!", and winamp's "VERSION XXX IS NOW OUT! DOWNLOAD?".
Except winamp makes it batantly obvious how to permanently turn off update checking while the others don't actually let you permanantly turn that "feature" off and don't even let you choose to delay it during the install process.
Not to mention that quicktime messes up IE's ability to render png files correctly and it asks you to upgrade to the pay version every single time you run it.. I just install quicktime and tell mediaplayer to use the quicktime codecs to pay.mov files..
yeh and every other version of realplayer restate the question with double negatives to confuse you.. "Are you sure to your don't want to not disable smart center?" that and if you if notice in the installer where they ask you to pick prefs, they have a scroll box with the visable options unchecked and all the ones you'd have to scroll to see checked.
You, on the other hand, are a CS student at some budget college in Wisconsin -- probably still being supported by mommy and daddy.
wrong and wrong..
either way its not worth debating.. if you want to believe you're correct go ahead.. I'm not attacking you, I'm telling you to shut up.. you're arguments aren't persuasive at all and are based upon your person beliefs.. you aren't going to persuade me to change my mind, so just get over it and get on with your successful professional life, and the rest of us will continue living in reality..
I have to disagree. Like many of the earlier Simpsons epidodes, The Principle and the Pauper is a parody of an earlier famous work. In this case it is taken directly from Martin Guerre [musicalheaven.com], a musical.
I'd imagine they got the idea from the Prince and the Pauper story, since the name and the fact that its a more common take on the plot.. who's not familar with the prince and the pauper? Who's heard of Martin Guerre?
I've used opera for large amounts of time, the UI isn't consistant with the general design of windows programs, and its UI in general isn't really that appealing to me.
I don't have any definate percentages, but I think it would be more than generous to say that 5-10% of all users use Opera as their default browser, most likely less. So the facts can speak for themselves.. even if you compare the number of downloads of opera compared to percantage of opera hits to a popular website, its pretty obvious that almost no one uses opera.
The reason there has never been that many security vulnerabilities reported with Opera is because almost no one uses it.
Not to mention Opera's ad based shareware idea isn't really gaining them that many users considering IE is free and works on probably 98% of the desktop machines in use.
A decent ink jet won't grab too many sheets unless its particulary humid.. perhaps the heat from the laser helps with that? We often have problems with humidity at the uni where I work, causing the pages to stick together.. also, contrary to common belief, there is a top and bottom to paper, if you look at the edge of the ream, itll have little arrows showing which side is down.. not sure if its a texture thing or perhaps due to how they stack or dry it or something, but itll stick together if you stick it in upside down.
They can't actually void your warrenty for using other ink unless they prove that the part of the printer that failed was directly caused by using the cheap ink cart
Wow, thats almost as good as what I got my 2 laser printers for.. got one for $20, but unfortunately it had a sratch on the toner causing striped printouts, and I got another that works great for free.
This is the same as: Sell the Razor at a loss, make the profit on the blades.
I don't understand why something that's okay at the $3.00 range (blades) isn't okay at the $50 range. I mean really, do you think these guys are making a profit on a $50 printer when the _packaging_ for that printer's gotta cost $12?
Except when you sell razors at a loss and some other company makes compatible blades, you are only out $1 here and there, but if you make a printer and someone undersells you on imitation carts, you are out $20 or more at a time.. good way for a company to go out of business.
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But you aren't really gaining new services by doing this. An extra phone jack will allow you use a phone in another room, but it will not allow you to use phones in separate rooms for separate calls. Therefore, you aren't stealing from the phone company if you add a phone jack to your house.
splitting your cable also allows you to watch tv in different rooms, why should you only be able to watch tv in your living room? Adding extra phones allows multiple people in one house to join in on one conversation using multiple phones, by your reasoning, that would be bad as well. if they didn't want you to split the cable, they would make it so its not possible to split it. in my area its perfectly legal to split the cable once it enters your house, i doubt some many people would be willing to pay $40 a month if it wasn't, perhaps in some areas your sign a contract not allowing to split your cable, but here its just fine and its common practice, the cable installer will even split it for you if you want.
i dunno.. i think if its in your house you could probably justify doing whatever you want with it. Kinda like how you can splice your phone line and add extra wall plugs even tho the phone co would be happy to send a tech out to wire a simple plug for $50+
does this really deserve a /. story? Its been pretty obvious for the last few years to anyone with cable internet that its exactly the same cable you already had in your house with a cable modem attached to the end of it. Only prob with splitting it off is that it kills your bandwidth something fierce when you start watching tv while you are online
You are necessarily ruining the books, you could easily have them rebound (like old hardcover books at the library often are) or spiral bound. A lot of people cut the binding off of tech books and have them spiral bound so they lay flat without closing.
thank you.. i was about to post an offtopic statement basically saying the exact some thing..
Yeh, he looks stoned..
playing a flute to a fake butterfly..
For example, I'm from Brazil, where the driving age is 18. This means that driving is an extremely adult thing. It's not taken lightly. People don't drink and drive as much. The culture is different.
exactly, the culture is different. In America, the the drinking and driving is mostly done by people who are already of legal age to drink, not by the people just learning to drive..
WIU.edu isn't in wisconson..
Hasn't this already been posted here once or twice already.. this is one of the few sites I get net news at, and I know I've heard this several times..
I think if it were me, I would have filled in the huge gaps at the top with blank squares to make it have a nice shape so that it could be used in a dining room or something.. all that work for an oddly shaped table makes it hard to show off well.
haha.. man just let it go.
realplayer is just a complete bitch for this, which is why i don't use it. ever. i'm also quickly getting fed up with quicktime's 'UPGRADE TO QUICKTIME PRO', adobe's "THERES MORE TO ACROBAT THAN JUST READER!", and winamp's "VERSION XXX IS NOW OUT! DOWNLOAD?".
Except winamp makes it batantly obvious how to permanently turn off update checking while the others don't actually let you permanantly turn that "feature" off and don't even let you choose to delay it during the install process.
Not to mention that quicktime messes up IE's ability to render png files correctly and it asks you to upgrade to the pay version every single time you run it.. I just install quicktime and tell mediaplayer to use the quicktime codecs to pay .mov files..
yeh and every other version of realplayer restate the question with double negatives to confuse you.. "Are you sure to your don't want to not disable smart center?" that and if you if notice in the installer where they ask you to pick prefs, they have a scroll box with the visable options unchecked and all the ones you'd have to scroll to see checked.
You, on the other hand, are a CS student at some budget college in Wisconsin -- probably still being supported by mommy and daddy.
wrong and wrong..
either way its not worth debating.. if you want to believe you're correct go ahead.. I'm not attacking you, I'm telling you to shut up.. you're arguments aren't persuasive at all and are based upon your person beliefs.. you aren't going to persuade me to change my mind, so just get over it and get on with your successful professional life, and the rest of us will continue living in reality..
Once the aibo linux distro comes out, there will be no stopping these crazy dog programmers.
This is just a complete waste of time.
then shut up and keep living in your dream world.. the rest of us will stick with living in reality.
I have to disagree. Like many of the earlier Simpsons epidodes, The Principle and the Pauper is a parody of an earlier famous work. In this case it is taken directly from Martin Guerre [musicalheaven.com], a musical.
I'd imagine they got the idea from the Prince and the Pauper story, since the name and the fact that its a more common take on the plot.. who's not familar with the prince and the pauper? Who's heard of Martin Guerre?
I've used opera for large amounts of time, the UI isn't consistant with the general design of windows programs, and its UI in general isn't really that appealing to me.
I don't have any definate percentages, but I think it would be more than generous to say that 5-10% of all users use Opera as their default browser, most likely less. So the facts can speak for themselves.. even if you compare the number of downloads of opera compared to percantage of opera hits to a popular website, its pretty obvious that almost no one uses opera.
The reason there has never been that many security vulnerabilities reported with Opera is because almost no one uses it.
Not to mention Opera's ad based shareware idea isn't really gaining them that many users considering IE is free and works on probably 98% of the desktop machines in use.
A decent ink jet won't grab too many sheets unless its particulary humid.. perhaps the heat from the laser helps with that? We often have problems with humidity at the uni where I work, causing the pages to stick together.. also, contrary to common belief, there is a top and bottom to paper, if you look at the edge of the ream, itll have little arrows showing which side is down.. not sure if its a texture thing or perhaps due to how they stack or dry it or something, but itll stick together if you stick it in upside down.
They can't actually void your warrenty for using other ink unless they prove that the part of the printer that failed was directly caused by using the cheap ink cart
Yes. Opera 6 is a superior browser to IE 5.5. The UI is superior. The security is superior.
nope sorry. a small percentage of people prefer the opera UI and I've to see any real proof that its superior in any other area either.
Wow, thats almost as good as what I got my 2 laser printers for.. got one for $20, but unfortunately it had a sratch on the toner causing striped printouts, and I got another that works great for free.
Yeh, but they have no way to enforce that other than the fact that some people might feel bad about breaking the agreement.
This is the same as: Sell the Razor at a loss, make the profit on the blades.
I don't understand why something that's okay at the $3.00 range (blades) isn't okay at the $50 range. I mean really, do you think these guys are making a profit on a $50 printer when the _packaging_ for that printer's gotta cost $12?
Except when you sell razors at a loss and some other company makes compatible blades, you are only out $1 here and there, but if you make a printer and someone undersells you on imitation carts, you are out $20 or more at a time.. good way for a company to go out of business.