I don't see tham staying online after the new law, but nothing happening to them as most countries legal principles exempt past behavior from new laws.
Actrually, the FEC wanted to be hands off, but the Judge said no, you have to regulate it as well. Of course this was not only in the TFA but in the article summary so...
The problem that they are really worried about is if I post a link to say Bush's campaign site in a post to Slashdot, how much have I contributed to his campaign. More importantly, is it from my contribution or from OSDN? If from OSDN then they are a corp and not allowed so how much should they get fined. Maybe Slashdot would get an exemption as they are the Press. But what about all the bloggers and forums and what not.
Yes, if you have a couple of keys and put in the middle, it will blend right in. It is about as long as my car key, so it is a bit longer than a dead bolt key. And an even closer look will show a screwdriver and bottle cap opener. One has to pretty much open it to realize there is also a knife blade.
the Util-key I find to be quite useful to carry around on my key chain. I used to carry around a mini-swiss army knife but that was to bulky once I got a keyless remote for my car. It is perfect for those times when I need to tighted one screw or open a box. I have a couple of multi-tools but never carry them. I find if I need a pliers or something I will use a real tool from my toolbox.
Diploma's never count for a job you have now. What happens two years from now when you have or don't have the Diploma and need to find a job?
Having a degree makes you that much more desirable. A friend that owns his own business tells it this way: Someone who has a degree demonstrates two things, one they have a desire to learn; two, they can be taught.
Now this only applies if the person doing the hiring is looking forsomeone that can further assist them as opposed to bring unique skills with them. But two people with the same skills, the person with the degree is a better candidate.
The various copyright fees (ie payt he songwriter, and other royalties) comes to about 50-80 cents a song in the US. My understanding that this doesn't matter what medium the song is published in. Some of this cost is lowered if is an entire album rather than individual songs but it gives a decent guideline. So the problem is that minus everything else, it costs say $8 just to pay the royalty holders. The manufacturing of cds only costs pennies each once you get into high volume. So at $12, $4 is split between retailer, distribution, and publishing house. then you got to figure that some of that money goes into subsidizing all those cds that go into the bargain bin.
Now Apple does not have to worry about subsidizing the "music failures" because if a song doesn't sell, then no fees need to be paid as nothing has been distributed. Now the Labels/RIAA want a bigger cut in part to subsidize the "failures" as well as to subsidize the exec's "expenditures"*.
It is a abit easier to see why things are priced the way they are, though it still amazes me that a songwriter will make more than the actual musicians on a typical albumn.
Sorry, I challenge you to name one previous society where everyone had access to weapons. The plains Indians are a fair example, and many things to recommend them on thier intratribal relations. Once you go beyond the basic tribe they could be belligerent, but then again they were in a state of constant war.
MBNA has that as well. I have used for a number of sites that want to hit you for reoccuring monthly fees. Now I don't need to remember to go back and cancel. If you must know, the last time was transgaming. I'm sick and tired of paying $60 a year for them to not work on any game I want working.
That happens in lots of places, but it is most common with restaurants.
The on time this happened to me, it was traced back to using my card at a Restaurant. Seeing how it was a debit card never used online, it had to be a brick and mortar store. Fortunately, Visa Fraud Prevention caught it and the only inconvience to me was waiting a week for a new card. It's happened to over half my acquaintances this way.
There is or was an organized crime ring out in Miami that was encoding thier own CC with the stolen numbers. One of the big scams was using them at gas stations.
Besides for PC users, if they only have USB1, then they almost certainly don't have firewire. (There will be a few exceptions like Sony with i.Link, but few other OEM manufactures had any significant number of IEEE1394 ports on thier models).
Meaning that if you buy from Dell or Hp or Sony or whoever bigname, it is preactivated so you never need to enter a COA key even when you reinstall using those recovery cds. This move is only really going to affect little mom and pop stores. You know, that litle store in town or on the internet that will build a generic beige pc.
Some more of those stores will be further enticed to offer Linux now though.
USB2 is backwards compatible with USB1. So anyone with a computer built since 1995 will in theory be capable of connecting an iPod.
Plus most customers probably have more USB ports available then IEEE1394 ports.
My current Mobo has 4 USB built in with headers for another 4. It does have on IEEE1394 port on the back and the header for one more. But even with my mass of USB peripherals I still have free ports.
If Linux has at least 128mb of RAM, it will run fine on a 200mhz+. PIII with 256mb will be fine. Things will take a few seconds to open, but nothing that makes it unusuable.
I bet the grandparent's computers only had 32mb-64mb of RAM and a P150. An older version of VectorLinux might be ok, but newer distros will be slow as molasses.
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They meant Diners Club. http://www.dinersclub.com/en/index.html
It is not that popular in the US anymore, but if you have never heard of it, then you need to get out more.
JSB is probably a reference to JSB UniversalBank.
I don't see tham staying online after the new law, but nothing happening to them as most countries legal principles exempt past behavior from new laws.
Simple, from the DA's point of view, they are violating the spirit of the law. As they have not violated the actual letter of the law, they are ok.
At least until a new law is made.
And you see nothing wrong with that? And where do we draw limits? Should you get fired because you support a different political party?
If we let our rights get eroded away this is what is going to happen.
Actrually, the FEC wanted to be hands off, but the Judge said no, you have to regulate it as well. Of course this was not only in the TFA but in the article summary so...
The problem that they are really worried about is if I post a link to say Bush's campaign site in a post to Slashdot, how much have I contributed to his campaign. More importantly, is it from my contribution or from OSDN? If from OSDN then they are a corp and not allowed so how much should they get fined. Maybe Slashdot would get an exemption as they are the Press. But what about all the bloggers and forums and what not.
Yes, if you have a couple of keys and put in the middle, it will blend right in. It is about as long as my car key, so it is a bit longer than a dead bolt key. And an even closer look will show a screwdriver and bottle cap opener. One has to pretty much open it to realize there is also a knife blade.
I have one of those, it is pretty nice.
the Util-key I find to be quite useful to carry around on my key chain. I used to carry around a mini-swiss army knife but that was to bulky once I got a keyless remote for my car. It is perfect for those times when I need to tighted one screw or open a box. I have a couple of multi-tools but never carry them. I find if I need a pliers or something I will use a real tool from my toolbox.
Diploma's never count for a job you have now. What happens two years from now when you have or don't have the Diploma and need to find a job?
Having a degree makes you that much more desirable. A friend that owns his own business tells it this way: Someone who has a degree demonstrates two things, one they have a desire to learn; two, they can be taught.
Now this only applies if the person doing the hiring is looking forsomeone that can further assist them as opposed to bring unique skills with them. But two people with the same skills, the person with the degree is a better candidate.
Err, It is nt fully GPL, but the Mozilla Foundation is working on it. http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html
The various copyright fees (ie payt he songwriter, and other royalties) comes to about 50-80 cents a song in the US. My understanding that this doesn't matter what medium the song is published in. Some of this cost is lowered if is an entire album rather than individual songs but it gives a decent guideline. So the problem is that minus everything else, it costs say $8 just to pay the royalty holders. The manufacturing of cds only costs pennies each once you get into high volume. So at $12, $4 is split between retailer, distribution, and publishing house. then you got to figure that some of that money goes into subsidizing all those cds that go into the bargain bin.
Now Apple does not have to worry about subsidizing the "music failures" because if a song doesn't sell, then no fees need to be paid as nothing has been distributed. Now the Labels/RIAA want a bigger cut in part to subsidize the "failures" as well as to subsidize the exec's "expenditures"*.
It is a abit easier to see why things are priced the way they are, though it still amazes me that a songwriter will make more than the actual musicians on a typical albumn.
* expenditures- booze, drugs, and prostitutes
Many technical skills can be learned very quickly.
I have heard that before. Never seen it practice though. I have seen a bit of the opposite, where geeks work to sand off thier abrasive edges.
Your typical geek is not interested in Politicking. He can be polite, but not interested in engaging in chit chat for the sake of chit chat.
They probably are using Grip or something like it.
Grip can be configured to auto rip and then eject.
Seeing how it has a DVD/Combo Drive, it is probably was designed to rip DVD's but legal realized to many problems.
Plus at those speeds, it will rip in minutes as opposed say half an hour for a slower machine.
Well, it does have a dvdrw drive, and presumably some spare pci slots as the case lookes to be a microatx case so it could be a tivo with a dvdripper.
Maybe on Ebay, but the cheapest thing on Outpost is $279 is not nearly as nice of specs as the beamer.
Sorry, I challenge you to name one previous society where everyone had access to weapons. The plains Indians are a fair example, and many things to recommend them on thier intratribal relations. Once you go beyond the basic tribe they could be belligerent, but then again they were in a state of constant war.
MBNA has that as well. I have used for a number of sites that want to hit you for reoccuring monthly fees. Now I don't need to remember to go back and cancel. If you must know, the last time was transgaming. I'm sick and tired of paying $60 a year for them to not work on any game I want working.
That happens in lots of places, but it is most common with restaurants.
The on time this happened to me, it was traced back to using my card at a Restaurant. Seeing how it was a debit card never used online, it had to be a brick and mortar store. Fortunately, Visa Fraud Prevention caught it and the only inconvience to me was waiting a week for a new card. It's happened to over half my acquaintances this way.
There is or was an organized crime ring out in Miami that was encoding thier own CC with the stolen numbers. One of the big scams was using them at gas stations.
The point of the iPod is to transfer once.
Besides for PC users, if they only have USB1, then they almost certainly don't have firewire. (There will be a few exceptions like Sony with i.Link, but few other OEM manufactures had any significant number of IEEE1394 ports on thier models).
Meaning that if you buy from Dell or Hp or Sony or whoever bigname, it is preactivated so you never need to enter a COA key even when you reinstall using those recovery cds. This move is only really going to affect little mom and pop stores. You know, that litle store in town or on the internet that will build a generic beige pc.
Some more of those stores will be further enticed to offer Linux now though.
USB2 is backwards compatible with USB1. So anyone with a computer built since 1995 will in theory be capable of connecting an iPod.
Plus most customers probably have more USB ports available then IEEE1394 ports.
My current Mobo has 4 USB built in with headers for another 4. It does have on IEEE1394 port on the back and the header for one more. But even with my mass of USB peripherals I still have free ports.
Usually is just a teacher that is the admin. The costs are a lot higher than you think and they do not scale down to samll school systems well.
If Linux has at least 128mb of RAM, it will run fine on a 200mhz+. PIII with 256mb will be fine. Things will take a few seconds to open, but nothing that makes it unusuable.
I bet the grandparent's computers only had 32mb-64mb of RAM and a P150. An older version of VectorLinux might be ok, but newer distros will be slow as molasses.
Easier to Admin would be a compelling reason. And MS is quite expensive even with school discounts.