The reason it affects me is that there is no version of Cakewalk Pro Audio for Linux/UNIX, which I would gladly pay for. The reason there isn't is because there is no other consumer OS but Windows for which programmers are willing to program.
You are wrong. The reason cakewalk pro isn't for any other operating system, is because not enough people use other operating systems. You can bash on MS all you want but until some other competitor makes another operating system that is appealing enough for other people to use, no good software is going to be written for it.
If you don't like windows, don't use it. Those of use that use it off and on, like having a built in browser that works and correctly renders most pages.. Hell you don't go around complaining because kde3 comes with a browser.
MS is a monopoly, fine. There is still no reason not to include a browser with the OS, it is common practice in the OS market to do so. I don't know of any OS you pay money for that doesn't come with a browser.
I wish MS would just rebrand a version of vanilla win95 call it win2000 home edition and sell it for $100 then all you people that enjoying using windows and netscape can buy it and install whatever software you want and think you are having your cake and eating it too.
If you don't use windows, you don't even deserve to complain. Just use whatever OS you use and whatever browser and other OS components you like and shutup about it.
People who use fountain pens don't go around telling all of use that enjoy cheap bics about all the benefits we are missing out on. We like our pens to come with ink and cheap plastic shell we can chew on. If you enjoy putting the ink in the pen yourself, more power to you, but some people like using a product that provides everything right out of the box.
With CDs, this isn't really a significant source of income for most musicians. They tend to make most of their money from touring. Do you have a source for this? Everything I've read says that most tours lose money.
Its true.. the actual musicians make very little on the actual cds sales, but make a lot of their money from tshirt sales and such from touring. They don't make that much from actual ticket sales, but they get nearly all the profits from the tshirt sales.. That why they are always quick to remind you at the end that their are tshirts for sale and they are very good about autographing them.
Luckily for the consumer, libraries and the concept of buying used books have been around for centuries. Imagine that if back in the day when Gutenburg invited the printing press coorporations were what they are today and EULA's and such existed. We are already nearing an age where our right to read is attempting to be limited by greedy people. Lucky for us, books have been around a lot longer than cd's or dvd's or none of us would be able to afford to educate ourselfs or gain enjoyment from one of the simpler pleasures in life.
$50 (an hour, I am assuming) is $100,000 gross a year. If you are an independent contractor, take 50% of the top for taxes, FICA/SS, matching FICA/SS, health insurance, business license.
Which is true, except most professionals that charge ungodly hourly rates charge you an hour everytime they have to do something.. in any given day, a lawyer will bill several more hours than they actually work.
sue them yourself in small claims court.. it usually only cost $100 or less and if they don't have a local lawyer or business rep come and represent them in court, you automatically win.
Lawyers are not all evil because they charge money for their services when they can.
Yes they are. If you charge someone an unusually high amount of money for a service they need and only you or someone who charges even more can provide, you are taking advantage of them and are being a bad person in the process.
Anyone who charges more that $50 or so for their time, is not worth it and taking advantage of you.
And just like most lawyers, most dentists charge excessively. Perhaps they do it because 90% of their clients get the majority of their bills paid by their employers insurance program, or maybe they charge so much because they know people will pay for it. Either way dentists are nearly as bad as lawyers in the way they take advantage of people who have no choice but to pay the fees. At least with the law, you can represent yourself with a little reading. You can't really give yourself a root canel.
They are probably already gone.. I've seen the linux tin dirt cheap several places for about a year.. and now its not anywhere to be had. I think a lot of people bought it because it had both the windows version and the linux version on the cd or something.
Sawfish supports both Workspaces and Virtual Desktops which are different beasts
Why make a distinction between workspaces and virtual desktops? Why not just call them all the same thing and let you be able to arrange them up down and over or just over or just up and down?
actually the whole "right to privacy" was invented during the Roe v Wade trials.. before then there was no perceived constitutional right to privacy..just life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness(property) and if I recall correctly, both sides of the case argued their case using both the 1st and the 4th amendments.
You should read the court's opinion it gives a decent background and also explains why the first admendment argument is anything but weak.
The upside of doing your homework is that you don't make embarassing statements like but saying that anonymity is required for true freedom of speech seems a tenuous link at best. As long as you're protected from being censored or censured for your opinions, I fail to see how anonymity is a legitimate requirement for free speech.
Actually, when I was in middle school a few (3) years ago, one of the parents who drove their kids to school had a bumper sticker that said "My kid beat up your honor student". Now that really showed what that kid was learning at home...
So, obviously, some of the parents of these degenerate kids know what the kids are like and *don't care*-- in fact, they seem to encourage them!
this is the kind of project where technology in the form of a digital camera would have been nice:) This is a cool project though. No matter how good digitals get, nothing bets a good 35mm
No if you read the article, the above conclusion pretty much sums it up.. there is no real interesting data given.. basically with out going into the specifics, the article explains that you can hook a laptop into a car inplace of the chips that come with the car.. which is a well known fact.. the author flavors the article with person stories about how car engineers don't like it when you talk about hacking into the system.. but other than that, no specifics are givin..
I thought internet time referred to breaking time into an easy to understand system based on clicks or something.. A quick search on google will back up my assumption.. whats this have anything to do with Thomas Edison?
He should have got laughed out of court here.. I have no idea why the defendants didn't file for a rule 11 ruling asking for the case to be thrown out because its frivilous.
He's also claiming that attempts to block his responses were intentionally blocked. Err, that should read "He's also claiming that attempts to respond to criticism were intentionally blocked." I definitely need more caffeine.
Either way, thats nothing to sue over.. You aren't constitutionally guaranteed a right to post on someone's mailing list.
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The reason it affects me is that there is no version of Cakewalk Pro Audio for Linux/UNIX, which I would gladly pay for. The reason there isn't is because there is no other consumer OS but Windows for which programmers are willing to program.
You are wrong. The reason cakewalk pro isn't for any other operating system, is because not enough people use other operating systems. You can bash on MS all you want but until some other competitor makes another operating system that is appealing enough for other people to use, no good software is going to be written for it.
If you don't like windows, don't use it. Those of use that use it off and on, like having a built in browser that works and correctly renders most pages.. Hell you don't go around complaining because kde3 comes with a browser.
MS is a monopoly, fine. There is still no reason not to include a browser with the OS, it is common practice in the OS market to do so. I don't know of any OS you pay money for that doesn't come with a browser.
I wish MS would just rebrand a version of vanilla win95 call it win2000 home edition and sell it for $100 then all you people that enjoying using windows and netscape can buy it and install whatever software you want and think you are having your cake and eating it too.
If you don't use windows, you don't even deserve to complain. Just use whatever OS you use and whatever browser and other OS components you like and shutup about it.
People who use fountain pens don't go around telling all of use that enjoy cheap bics about all the benefits we are missing out on. We like our pens to come with ink and cheap plastic shell we can chew on. If you enjoy putting the ink in the pen yourself, more power to you, but some people like using a product that provides everything right out of the box.
With CDs, this isn't really a significant source of income for most musicians. They tend to make most of their money from touring.
Do you have a source for this? Everything I've read says that most tours lose money.
Its true.. the actual musicians make very little on the actual cds sales, but make a lot of their money from tshirt sales and such from touring. They don't make that much from actual ticket sales, but they get nearly all the profits from the tshirt sales.. That why they are always quick to remind you at the end that their are tshirts for sale and they are very good about autographing them.
Luckily for the consumer, libraries and the concept of buying used books have been around for centuries. Imagine that if back in the day when Gutenburg invited the printing press coorporations were what they are today and EULA's and such existed. We are already nearing an age where our right to read is attempting to be limited by greedy people. Lucky for us, books have been around a lot longer than cd's or dvd's or none of us would be able to afford to educate ourselfs or gain enjoyment from one of the simpler pleasures in life.
$50 (an hour, I am assuming) is $100,000 gross a year. If you are an independent contractor, take 50% of the top for taxes, FICA/SS, matching FICA/SS, health insurance, business license.
Which is true, except most professionals that charge ungodly hourly rates charge you an hour everytime they have to do something.. in any given day, a lawyer will bill several more hours than they actually work.
sue them yourself in small claims court.. it usually only cost $100 or less and if they don't have a local lawyer or business rep come and represent them in court, you automatically win.
You could sell your judgement to a collections agency and let them track the person down and repro their car or something.
Lawyers are not all evil because they charge money for their services when they can.
Yes they are. If you charge someone an unusually high amount of money for a service they need and only you or someone who charges even more can provide, you are taking advantage of them and are being a bad person in the process.
Anyone who charges more that $50 or so for their time, is not worth it and taking advantage of you.
And just like most lawyers, most dentists charge excessively. Perhaps they do it because 90% of their clients get the majority of their bills paid by their employers insurance program, or maybe they charge so much because they know people will pay for it. Either way dentists are nearly as bad as lawyers in the way they take advantage of people who have no choice but to pay the fees. At least with the law, you can represent yourself with a little reading. You can't really give yourself a root canel.
They are probably already gone.. I've seen the linux tin dirt cheap several places for about a year.. and now its not anywhere to be had. I think a lot of people bought it because it had both the windows version and the linux version on the cd or something.
Sawfish supports both Workspaces and Virtual Desktops which are different beasts
Why make a distinction between workspaces and virtual desktops? Why not just call them all the same thing and let you be able to arrange them up down and over or just over or just up and down?
and redhat people wonder why debian people are just waiting for the .deb files. "apt-get install kde3" is going to be so much easier and it'll work.
actually the whole "right to privacy" was invented during the Roe v Wade trials.. before then there was no perceived constitutional right to privacy..just life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness(property) and if I recall correctly, both sides of the case argued their case using both the 1st and the 4th amendments.
You should read the court's opinion it gives a decent background and also explains why the first admendment argument is anything but weak.
The upside of doing your homework is that you don't make embarassing statements like but saying that anonymity is required for true freedom of speech seems a tenuous link at best. As long as you're protected from being censored or censured for your opinions, I fail to see how anonymity is a legitimate requirement for free speech.
Actually, when I was in middle school a few (3) years ago, one of the parents who drove their kids to school had a bumper sticker that said "My kid beat up your honor student". Now that really showed what that kid was learning at home...
So, obviously, some of the parents of these degenerate kids know what the kids are like and *don't care*-- in fact, they seem to encourage them!
No, some people just have a sense of humor.
this is the kind of project where technology in the form of a digital camera would have been nice :) This is a cool project though. No matter how good digitals get, nothing bets a good 35mm
Don't forget the high performance stickers.. those get your at least ~10 extra horse power..
No if you read the article, the above conclusion pretty much sums it up.. there is no real interesting data given.. basically with out going into the specifics, the article explains that you can hook a laptop into a car inplace of the chips that come with the car.. which is a well known fact.. the author flavors the article with person stories about how car engineers don't like it when you talk about hacking into the system.. but other than that, no specifics are givin..
I thought internet time referred to breaking time into an easy to understand system based on clicks or something.. A quick search on google will back up my assumption.. whats this have anything to do with Thomas Edison?
It probably didn't make the front page.. Things that don't make the front page don't get that many comments.
Wasn't Kay's called a DynaBook?
Check out This Link apparently their lawyer did bring up Rule 11.
I can't imagine this case will go anywhere, its amazing that the defendants are settling instead of representing themselves at the very least.
He should have got laughed out of court here.. I have no idea why the defendants didn't file for a rule 11 ruling asking for the case to be thrown out because its frivilous.
He's also claiming that attempts to block his responses were intentionally blocked.
Err, that should read "He's also claiming that attempts to respond to criticism were intentionally blocked." I definitely need more caffeine.
Either way, thats nothing to sue over.. You aren't constitutionally guaranteed a right to post on someone's mailing list.
Novak, meanwhile, said he has further legal targets. One is the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York.
right.. whats he gonna do, sue them out of existance.. I hardly see that happening.