That's not true. Merchan'ts don't get to know if you have disputed charges or not.
What IS true, though, is that most merchants, if you have ever disputed a charge with them, will never accept a credit card from you again (which makes sense, no?)
What is ebay supposed to do for you, exactly, other than factilitate the auction. All Ebay can do, at most, is provide contact info, or yank the guy's account. That's it. They are not part of the financial transaction.
Yes. But that sale was illegal; it was fraudulent.
I realize that we're getting into splitting hairs over the definition of 'illegal'. I suppose it's not a 'felony' or whatever y'all call it in the US.
In my mind, if I can have someone in court over it, and the courts will punish them, then whatever it's about was ILLEGAL.
You can't convert Temperature directly into power. Temperate is not a measure of heat energy. Just as voltage is not a measure of electric energy.
A differential of 1 degree could theoretically produce thousands of watts of power, if there is a large enough source of heat. The differential is merely a way of transferring the power.
But I doubt that's the issue. The issue is the available software for sound engineering, and whether it works reliably on the platform.
This isn't a huge corporation facing millions of dollars in licensing fees because office and windows need to be upgraded. This is something else entirely.
Plus.. the cost of commerical sound engineering software absolutely dwarfs the cost of windows.
Though they may be indirect. Perhaps not a law against it directly, but you are causing me to waste my own time and resources on a lie. Therefore, I can probably sue you for damages.
Isn't that like running around selling sugar as cocaine?
Can one charge a drug-dealer selling bunk drugs with fraud?
This is a serious question.. is there a statute that makes the laws against misrepresentation not apply if the intended transaction is illegal?
If they put up lots of 'bogus' files.. can we not sue theM?
Personally, I'm happy to see the RIAA go to war with the common folk.
Paying for 'upgrades' to fix bugs.. yes, it's bad.
In the case of really big, expensive software, this is something that should be explicitly dealt with in contract.
It's when you get to stuff like, well, everything from Microsoft that you get the real problems.
Look at this nonsense with XP.
I predict XP is going to chase a LOT of shops towards linux.
Though you can probably get some decent tools in the Linux world...
Why is this person trying to 'get away' from windows... do the applications he has not work? Sound engineering is an application-specific task.. as long as the apps work, he should be fine.
Also.. why does he want to stay away from macs? macs, I believe, are the leader in digital sound engineering, no? That's like saying you want to build a huge complex network but want to stay away from Cisco.
Caller-ID and a phone trace have basically nothing to do with one another. Caller-ID doesn't show, and call block doesn't work, I'd think, because the phone system is actively refusing to tell you this information, because they probably pay extra to get it this way.
That doesn't mean the phone company doesn't know who it is. If you dial the call-trace number, the call info is immediately logged and made available to telco security personell. THey just won't tell YOU the number.
Get a cellular phone instead. They can't telemarket to cellular phones, it's illegal. Plus you get caller-ID automatically.
The one solution I found for dealing with telemarketers is... get a cellular phone, and use that! They cannot telemarket to cellular phones; it's illegal (and they seem to know this, because they don't do it).
Plus.. when you move, you keep your phone.
If you want a landline for cheap LD or dialup.. turn the ringer off.
I predicted this.
At the time it came out, progeny was great. Not worlds apart from debian.. but it was my preferred install.. (it was the best pick of the latest stuff, basically). I didn't think they would keep it up, or turn a profit though.
128 kbps is nowhere *near* CD quality. It is simply 'acceptable' quality for casual listening for most people. ie: It's not bad enough to make them say 'This sucks'. SO they don't notice.
There is a definite, easy to hear diffrence if you compare them though.
Let me rephrase:
'If people percieve software as being worth some of their money, they will pay for it'.
Would I pay for linux if I had to? Now? Abso-fucking-lutely.
You techno hippie open-source nerds need to quit watching 'Antitrust' like some kind of cult classic and go get a life. It's not for you to tell others they shouldn't sell their work.
He gave his rasons for not wanting raid, and not wanting lots of drives. Noise.
As for 200 gigs.. I thought about that issue.
I decided that, if I want mass online storage, I will build a file server out of IDE drives for all that data. The fast SCSI drives are there for current work and projects.
Hmm.
Faster... faster how? Yes.. I know it works really well. What about CPU loading? The SCSI solution is much lighter on the CPU... which is what he wanted.
Remember, the goal was to build the ultimate linux box. I would not consider IDE part of an 'ultimate' box.
Obviously, for a home user, well thought out IDE is a far better value.
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That's not true. Merchan'ts don't get to know if you have disputed charges or not.
What IS true, though, is that most merchants, if you have ever disputed a charge with them, will never accept a credit card from you again (which makes sense, no?)
What is ebay supposed to do for you, exactly, other than factilitate the auction. All Ebay can do, at most, is provide contact info, or yank the guy's account. That's it. They are not part of the financial transaction.
Yes. But that sale was illegal; it was fraudulent.
I realize that we're getting into splitting hairs over the definition of 'illegal'. I suppose it's not a 'felony' or whatever y'all call it in the US.
In my mind, if I can have someone in court over it, and the courts will punish them, then whatever it's about was ILLEGAL.
I commonly used templates to generate websites for customers way back when.
The idea, software, and everything was my own. I did not think it was revolutionary.. more like 'obvious'.
You can't convert Temperature directly into power. Temperate is not a measure of heat energy. Just as voltage is not a measure of electric energy.
A differential of 1 degree could theoretically produce thousands of watts of power, if there is a large enough source of heat. The differential is merely a way of transferring the power.
But I doubt that's the issue. The issue is the available software for sound engineering, and whether it works reliably on the platform.
This isn't a huge corporation facing millions of dollars in licensing fees because office and windows need to be upgraded. This is something else entirely.
Plus.. the cost of commerical sound engineering software absolutely dwarfs the cost of windows.
How do you explain that the Mac is the de-facto standard for recording studios then? That's my point.
Though they may be indirect. Perhaps not a law against it directly, but you are causing me to waste my own time and resources on a lie. Therefore, I can probably sue you for damages.
Isn't that like running around selling sugar as cocaine?
Can one charge a drug-dealer selling bunk drugs with fraud?
This is a serious question.. is there a statute that makes the laws against misrepresentation not apply if the intended transaction is illegal?
If they put up lots of 'bogus' files.. can we not sue theM?
Personally, I'm happy to see the RIAA go to war with the common folk.
Paying for 'upgrades' to fix bugs.. yes, it's bad.
In the case of really big, expensive software, this is something that should be explicitly dealt with in contract.
It's when you get to stuff like, well, everything from Microsoft that you get the real problems.
Look at this nonsense with XP.
I predict XP is going to chase a LOT of shops towards linux.
Though you can probably get some decent tools in the Linux world...
Why is this person trying to 'get away' from windows... do the applications he has not work? Sound engineering is an application-specific task.. as long as the apps work, he should be fine.
Also.. why does he want to stay away from macs? macs, I believe, are the leader in digital sound engineering, no? That's like saying you want to build a huge complex network but want to stay away from Cisco.
Ohh. Okay. Gotcha. It just wasn't clear in your first post...
That's wierd.
You have more than that!
You are allowed to copy music you bought, for personal use, as much as you want, onto any media you want!
The 'archival copy' stuff you are referring to is some common stated software ruling... has nothing to do with music.
You have the right to make copies of music you own however and whenever you want.
Distributing those copies may be illegal, however.
Caller-ID and a phone trace have basically nothing to do with one another. Caller-ID doesn't show, and call block doesn't work, I'd think, because the phone system is actively refusing to tell you this information, because they probably pay extra to get it this way.
That doesn't mean the phone company doesn't know who it is. If you dial the call-trace number, the call info is immediately logged and made available to telco security personell. THey just won't tell YOU the number.
Get a cellular phone instead. They can't telemarket to cellular phones, it's illegal. Plus you get caller-ID automatically.
The one solution I found for dealing with telemarketers is... get a cellular phone, and use that! They cannot telemarket to cellular phones; it's illegal (and they seem to know this, because they don't do it).
Plus.. when you move, you keep your phone.
If you want a landline for cheap LD or dialup.. turn the ringer off.
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What was NOW supposed to be, I forget.
Some kind of installation for an enterprise? Proper management of all stations, remote apps, mosix, etc?
I predicted this.
At the time it came out, progeny was great. Not worlds apart from debian.. but it was my preferred install.. (it was the best pick of the latest stuff, basically). I didn't think they would keep it up, or turn a profit though.
the reason they 'cracked' the key was obviously because it wasn't really encrypted.
Any real stego you wanted to hide would also be encrypted. Strongly. So all you would find is noise.
They didn't shut off old versions. They merely took all the submitted work and closed future verisons, no?
And if it was GPL, it wouldn't have changed anything; if it was sold to them, by the copyright owners, they are not bound by the license.
And she was a film student, no doubt, learning how to properly work with film; an entirely different matter than video.
128 kbps is nowhere *near* CD quality. It is simply 'acceptable' quality for casual listening for most people. ie: It's not bad enough to make them say 'This sucks'. SO they don't notice.
There is a definite, easy to hear diffrence if you compare them though.
Stupid hippie.
Let me rephrase:
'If people percieve software as being worth some of their money, they will pay for it'.
Would I pay for linux if I had to? Now? Abso-fucking-lutely.
You techno hippie open-source nerds need to quit watching 'Antitrust' like some kind of cult classic and go get a life. It's not for you to tell others they shouldn't sell their work.
He gave his rasons for not wanting raid, and not wanting lots of drives. Noise.
As for 200 gigs.. I thought about that issue.
I decided that, if I want mass online storage, I will build a file server out of IDE drives for all that data. The fast SCSI drives are there for current work and projects.
Hmm.
Faster... faster how? Yes.. I know it works really well. What about CPU loading? The SCSI solution is much lighter on the CPU... which is what he wanted.
Remember, the goal was to build the ultimate linux box. I would not consider IDE part of an 'ultimate' box.
Obviously, for a home user, well thought out IDE is a far better value.
It's not the raid functinality that's the selling point here....
It's the fact that it's a real controller, with it's own drivers, etc.
This takes the load off the CPU (Standard IDE loading, I mean. Of course it does raid too). This yields performance like SCSI.