Some states, like Delaware, don't have sales taxes. So that's something else to consider when making an online purchase. I bet in no time the no-tax states will have a lot of new e-businesses registering there.
I guess it's true what they say about recording acts these days not needing a whole lot of pre-production, if you can just sell blank CDs and call yourself a record label.
How can you not afford a high spec machine? $1500 buys you an incredibly powerful desktop workstation these days. If you're really doing those power-user type things, you should be bringing enough income in that the high end machine will pay for itself in no time... unless you're just a hobbiest and not actually getting paid for the work you do.
The reason high-end hardware costs so little is precisely because "morons with too much money" buy them. If the tech wasn't mainstream, it wouldn't be nearly as cheap as it is.
Surf pricewatch and build yourself a sweet machine, it's not that hard, and I'm sure you can scrape the budget together somewhere, unless you're in true economic dire straits.
Maybe someday soon they'll figure out a way to partition the clock cycles on processors so that Bob can use 300-600 or whatever he needs to do his work, and the rest of it can go to a distributed supercomputer that does the company's "heavy lifting".
And, most virus protection programs condition users to disable them before attempting to install software. So probably most people will allow TurboTax to do whatever it wants, because they think it's trustworthy.
...but I never owned one, because the Plextors cost only about 75% as much as the Yamahas, and performed to within 93+% of them.
It's a shame they couldn't have cut their prices somehow.
Um... Has anyone NOT committed a crime?
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With laws like the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act and the DMCA, hasn't pretty much everyone broken the law now? It hardly takes a scientists to tell whether someone's a criminal these days. Hell, it's been true for decades that the tax code is so fiendishly complex that no one can understand it, let alone comply with it fully. And if all else fails, there's always the speed limit laws...
If I can just get the internet in my car, I can make use of this.... and then I'll find out that there's a traffic jam being caused by some idiot motorist trying to use a laptop to check traffic reports. D'oh!
Take anyone off their current WinXP/P4 1GHz+ box and put them back on a 33MHz 486 running DOS or Windows 3.11 and force them to use it to do work for a week. Not even anything involving networking or receiving files from outside sources, just let them create a few Office documents and try to work with them. At the end of the week, ask them whether or not they still miss the "good old days". I'll bet anything they'll shut up.
I only have one computer connected to their broadband drop -- and it's my router . My router, of course, is connected to multiple devices... but once you pass MY router, we're no longer talking about THEIR network, we're talking about MINE.
As long as I'm paying for the 1 IP address the cable/telco provides me, if I want to set up an internal network, I can assign whatever private IP addresses to as many machines sitting behind my firewall as I want -- that's MY network, not theirs. I'm only connecting ONE computer to THEIR network, so they can't very well take issue with me on that.
I could see them wanting to charge me for it if I wanted support in configuring and connecting these machines, but I'm not. I'm doing it all myself.
I could also see it if I was trying to hook up a CATV splitter and using amplifiers to split their drop to several computers, as that could have an effect on the signal quality for other cable customers on the same circuit, but I'm not doing that either.
There's a very clear border, and on one side of it there's my property, on the other side their's the ISP's property. I'm paying for service to 1 point in my HomeLAN, and once it comes in to my house, I should be able to do absolutely anything I want with it so long as it doesn't affect the outside.
So why should they care, as long as I stay under their bandwidth cap and don't do anything that disrupts service to other customers?
How do we know you're sincerely repentant? Maybe you're just acting sorry so that the government will release you from prison? Did social engineering get you out of jail?
If you buy a license to the content, but do not actually own the media, the content owners should be obligated to replace worn out/defective media for the lifetime of the license purchaser. Any publisher/copyright holder who refuses to do this should not be able to prosecute anyone for making backup/archival copies of data that they legitimately own a license for.
For that matter, why is there even a need to put English subtitles into a movie that's already in English? Can't you just hear what the actors are saying?
Not really anything new...
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The "Chase the Chuckwagon" and "Kool-Aid Man" games for the Atari 2600 are worth a lot to collectors... and they're at least 20 years old now.
I'm looking forward to blowing this bullshit law off the books with my 1337 lawyer team that I will pay with the book/movie royalties that I'll buy when I sell my story to...
Agreed. Besides, if you calculate the amount of water, etc. that would be used up by the billions of human mathematicians who'd be needed to perform the same tasks that IC chips do, but with comparably horrible speed, accuracy, and efficiency, we're really saving the environment.
Sure, equipment is expensive, but isn't a lot of that more or less a one-time cost? If you're building a new studio every time you want to record another album, sure things are going to be really expensive. But if you can re-use a lot of the equipment, it's not nearly as bad.
I don't suppose you can always use the exact same studio configuration each time you go to work on a project, and there's always going to be some equipmenet purchases to replace broken stuff or upgrade outdated stuff, but the tech isn't exactly disposable.
It's not censorship in and of itself, but it will lead to de-facto censorship as game makers restrain themselves in an effort to reach as broad a market as possible.
Funny, my computer doesn't have Palladium on it, and yet I can watch Hollywood movies on it.
Come to think of it, I can copy them, make screen captures, re-edit, and a lot of other stuff. And I don't even have to pay for the privilege of each re-play.
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Some states, like Delaware, don't have sales taxes. So that's something else to consider when making an online purchase. I bet in no time the no-tax states will have a lot of new e-businesses registering there.
We'll be able to settle once and for all whether the suck was designed in, or if it was an incidental byproduct of lack of design.
I guess it's true what they say about recording acts these days not needing a whole lot of pre-production, if you can just sell blank CDs and call yourself a record label.
How can you not afford a high spec machine? $1500 buys you an incredibly powerful desktop workstation these days. If you're really doing those power-user type things, you should be bringing enough income in that the high end machine will pay for itself in no time... unless you're just a hobbiest and not actually getting paid for the work you do.
The reason high-end hardware costs so little is precisely because "morons with too much money" buy them. If the tech wasn't mainstream, it wouldn't be nearly as cheap as it is.
Surf pricewatch and build yourself a sweet machine, it's not that hard, and I'm sure you can scrape the budget together somewhere, unless you're in true economic dire straits.
Maybe someday soon they'll figure out a way to partition the clock cycles on processors so that Bob can use 300-600 or whatever he needs to do his work, and the rest of it can go to a distributed supercomputer that does the company's "heavy lifting".
And, most virus protection programs condition users to disable them before attempting to install software. So probably most people will allow TurboTax to do whatever it wants, because they think it's trustworthy.
MS imitates everything else that Apple was successful at, so why should this be an exception?
...but I never owned one, because the Plextors cost only about 75% as much as the Yamahas, and performed to within 93+% of them.
It's a shame they couldn't have cut their prices somehow.
With laws like the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act and the DMCA, hasn't pretty much everyone broken the law now? It hardly takes a scientists to tell whether someone's a criminal these days. Hell, it's been true for decades that the tax code is so fiendishly complex that no one can understand it, let alone comply with it fully. And if all else fails, there's always the speed limit laws...
If I can just get the internet in my car, I can make use of this.... and then I'll find out that there's a traffic jam being caused by some idiot motorist trying to use a laptop to check traffic reports. D'oh!
however, it doesn't unilaterally stand up to the 3.06 GHz Pentium 4.
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Well, of course not... if it did, they'd be calling it the Athlon XP 3060, wouldn't they?
What about those space spores that drop in off the tails of comets? Isn't that supposedly how all life on this planet may have started?
Take anyone off their current WinXP/P4 1GHz+ box and put them back on a 33MHz 486 running DOS or Windows 3.11 and force them to use it to do work for a week. Not even anything involving networking or receiving files from outside sources, just let them create a few Office documents and try to work with them. At the end of the week, ask them whether or not they still miss the "good old days". I'll bet anything they'll shut up.
I only have one computer connected to their broadband drop -- and it's my router . My router, of course, is connected to multiple devices... but once you pass MY router, we're no longer talking about THEIR network, we're talking about MINE.
As long as I'm paying for the 1 IP address the cable/telco provides me, if I want to set up an internal network, I can assign whatever private IP addresses to as many machines sitting behind my firewall as I want -- that's MY network, not theirs. I'm only connecting ONE computer to THEIR network, so they can't very well take issue with me on that.
I could see them wanting to charge me for it if I wanted support in configuring and connecting these machines, but I'm not. I'm doing it all myself.
I could also see it if I was trying to hook up a CATV splitter and using amplifiers to split their drop to several computers, as that could have an effect on the signal quality for other cable customers on the same circuit, but I'm not doing that either.
There's a very clear border, and on one side of it there's my property, on the other side their's the ISP's property. I'm paying for service to 1 point in my HomeLAN, and once it comes in to my house, I should be able to do absolutely anything I want with it so long as it doesn't affect the outside.
So why should they care, as long as I stay under their bandwidth cap and don't do anything that disrupts service to other customers?
How do we know you're sincerely repentant? Maybe you're just acting sorry so that the government will release you from prison? Did social engineering get you out of jail?
If you buy a license to the content, but do not actually own the media, the content owners should be obligated to replace worn out/defective media for the lifetime of the license purchaser. Any publisher/copyright holder who refuses to do this should not be able to prosecute anyone for making backup/archival copies of data that they legitimately own a license for.
For that matter, why is there even a need to put English subtitles into a movie that's already in English? Can't you just hear what the actors are saying?
The "Chase the Chuckwagon" and "Kool-Aid Man" games for the Atari 2600 are worth a lot to collectors... and they're at least 20 years old now.
Unless the people coding the software take advantage of it. That's what I got out of the whole thing.
I'm looking forward to blowing this bullshit law off the books with my 1337 lawyer team that I will pay with the book/movie royalties that I'll buy when I sell my story to...
D'oh.
Agreed. Besides, if you calculate the amount of water, etc. that would be used up by the billions of human mathematicians who'd be needed to perform the same tasks that IC chips do, but with comparably horrible speed, accuracy, and efficiency, we're really saving the environment.
Sure, equipment is expensive, but isn't a lot of that more or less a one-time cost? If you're building a new studio every time you want to record another album, sure things are going to be really expensive. But if you can re-use a lot of the equipment, it's not nearly as bad.
I don't suppose you can always use the exact same studio configuration each time you go to work on a project, and there's always going to be some equipmenet purchases to replace broken stuff or upgrade outdated stuff, but the tech isn't exactly disposable.
It's not censorship in and of itself, but it will lead to de-facto censorship as game makers restrain themselves in an effort to reach as broad a market as possible.
No... Goatse is the project name for the "large hole" version for desktop monitors and laptops.
Funny, my computer doesn't have Palladium on it, and yet I can watch Hollywood movies on it.
Come to think of it, I can copy them, make screen captures, re-edit, and a lot of other stuff. And I don't even have to pay for the privilege of each re-play.
I own the bits on my hard drive! Amazing concept!