This is great, I might finally go and give it a try. I just hope theres some music I like thats drm free. If not hopefully some other lables will follow suit.
well you wouldn't have to modify much in the lg ke850 to make it almost identical to the iphone. I don't think apple would be able to sue them for their model I believe it was unvailed before the iphone or at the same time. If neither file suit against eachother(doubtful because I believe LG makes Apple monitors) other manufactures may be able to use the same design. Or patent suit ensuse. Samsungs upstage is pretty spiffy, but I have to say the iphone is the sexiest looking one out of all 3. The question is besides the fan boys whos going to spend the cash on this? I don't think anyone would turn it away, but thats alot for a phone/mp3 player without a plan.
Even if apple does release a phone with an amazing interface, it will be 2 weeks before the other cellular companies steal the idea and put it on their own phones. Not like its hard to modify a gui. It does have features that other phones don't currently have namely its an ipod. But will most people throw down 600 dollars for a phone on top of a contract? Especially when LG or Motorola just copied their interface.
Apple is not going to fail thats not what I'm saying. I just think its too early to say if they are going to dominate the market like they did with the ipod. They probably will redefine it though, and thats good for everyone.
I don't know how I would feel about someone doing surgery on me with a robot over the internet anyways. Besides wouldn't internet2 be a better play field for something like this?
I'm not sure about epilepsy, but i believe there has been some research that shows a link between parkinsons and genetics. Not that you will get it for sure but that you are more likely to get it because you were exposed to certain drugs or enviroment. If these genes are found in someone early maybe they could add the mutated gene to them so that if they do start showing signs of parkinsons they can be treated.
I would think a better cure would be to fix the nerological problems or stop them from degrading futher once they are discovered.
I don't know much about genetics or biochemistry though. This is stuff I just speculate because I like to.
I know your not being seriouse but I was wondering if air conisters would be as prone to explosions as a tank of oxygen. I could see a peirced tank shooting around from the force of the air leaving the tank, but I doubt it would explode. Couldn't be worse, than propane.
I always liked to think of athism as a type of religion anyways. They seem to believe without a shadow of a doubt that there is nothing in the universe and are just as closed minded to other ways of thinking. I generally jump between the two depending on the time of day.
Staying out of it is the only way to avoid getting into a debate that no one can win because no one has the complete answer and is willing to admit it.
I find the key is if your working with alot of computers, to have one external floppy drive laying around just in case. That way you have a way to get sata drivers in the computer or other weird things that you wouldn't think of. Or that game from 1993 that you missed.
I did this in collage. Of course I didn't take the time to attach a keyboard, write my own program language and put it in a wooden box. Mine had to be hooked up to a computer so that I could program it and it only had 4 input buttons(you could write a program and get it to do like binary math or something). I always wondered if someone seen it on the street if it was dropped if they would think it was a bomb, small box with a tiny lcd display blinking with wires hanging out(mine had the wires hanging out).
Anyways I think what he did was pretty cool, he took it to a different level. I think alot of people here were just disappointed because it wasn't a laptop that ran any normal OS, the summery was a touch vage or missleading.
You do know what you describe here is not homebrew but playing illegal ROM dumps on your DS. I have no problem with that but I do have a problem with people associating homebrew with ROMs. Now if your just joking that's okay but let people know. Most people on slashdot know the difference but someone somewhere else might not.
So your solution to telling us how much homework isn't good for someone is giving us the homework of reading a book? I don't understand how reading as an adult could be so good for someone but reading as a child can be so harmful. How is 1 hour or so a night of homework bad for a child. Someone mentioned that doing too much homework can hinder imagination. I read alot as a small child, books comics what ever. I think it helped with my imagination, I could fantisize about going to far off worlds or fighting big bad guys. The after school spelling and such helped me pass tests and made me better. I won't say that I didn't hate it at the time because I did, but I don't know where I would be without my Mom pushing me to work on the areas that were a problem(you can probabaly tell spelling is still one of them). I'm not from the U.S. I don't know how different it is down there but I think that homework as a young child not only helps some children develop it also alows them to hibituate to doing homework so when they get to higher levels its not such a chore for them to go and do homework.
Someone else mentioned manditory study hall, this could work if done correctly, but then the children that finish early(smarter ones) would be stuck doing nothing if they finish early.
Even if there was an unlimited number of CD-Keys that could be produced, its still stealing. Thats like saying because there is an unlimited number of seats in a theater its not stealing to take someones seat whos paid is still stealing.
Copyright Infringement might not be theft but its illegal. Also when you steal a key thats not copyright infringement thats stealing because only one copy can be used, so you basically stole someones copy of it. circumventing software authentication is way different than what is being talked about in the article and I think you would find more people morally objecting to this kind of practice.
I don't agree with your standpoint. I do think that IBM Oracle and other companies benifit from this kind of program. On the other hand most people benifit in some way from contributing code to linux in the first place. People use it for experiance to get a job, to make the OS that they run better, to be apart of something and make themselves feel better. Just because a company is volenteering programmers to the cause because its benifiting them doesn't mean its not volenteering. Its like saying donating to linux because you want it to work better for you so that you can produce more money is not really a donation.
Most people donate, volenteer for something because they know it will benifit them in the end(how many people at Harvard who have volenteering on their application to the school volenteered because it was something they wanted to do, I would guess half does that make their time in a soup kitchen less valuable or appreciated?). This doesn't mean that its any less noble in the end.
I wouldn't put it that its the same as a movie being pirated, usually you could get the content for a movie by going and watching it in the theater within a few days of it being released. The dvd is usually out within 17 months. This is saying you can't even access the media until over a year later in some cases, unless you pirate that media. That I think would drive more people to pirate a TV show than to pirate a movie, as some people will go to a theater to see something but would hate to wait an extra year before they can even legaly see it.
phone your provider and tell them to cut off you internet connection. Don't tell her. When it gets cut off freak out and phone the provider, have a big fight and at the end say "No way don't even bother I'm not dealing with you again" and then hang up. Tell your wife that she will have to go without internet until you are able to find a company that isn't a bunch of assholes. When she leaves to go to the internet cafe down the street call the lock smith, and change the locks. When she gets back make her cancle her WOW subscription and hand over her credit cards. You might have to wait her out on that one but it should work.
Even if the demand for Linux was decent it would still cost alot of money to go that direction. You would need to setup some kind of support network for linux, make sure that the configuration is setup for linux, and setting up imaging computers with it on the get go. Also all those applications that come with the computer when you buy a dell actually bring down the cost of the computer because they are basicly advertisment for those companies. The cost of buying a dell computer may even just go and stablize to the same price as if you had it come with windows(as I'm sure dell has a deal to lower the cost with microsoft seeing as they do the support for microsoft on their installed software). Also dell would have to make sure that all the drivers would work with linux as well and people would start complaining if the drivers weren't opensource.
The problem is setting up a support network for consumers, and the demand that the consumers will want. Its much easier to add a feature and train the existing support staff or to remove something than to institue a whole new operating system.
You know you could use a pen, paper, and hum alot, you don't need a computer. On the other hand you could just buy something that is on the shelf like epson, lexmark, cannon and so on. But you know complain about something like its your only option. That will get em.
As I read your comment, I visualize some wizard on a hill saying everything in your post with black clouds forming over his head. His eyes are turning grey and hes chanting nuances of doom and the ground is starting to shake and everyone is running for their lives. Then I realize your just talking about corp. execs and DRM.
Then I picture some guy in a suit hitting a kid with his breifcase yelling "give me my money" and a cop who was whistling stopping and says "stop, sir do you need help with that?" and then the cop holding the kids arms back while the guy in the suit feeds him punches.
Thats a very good question I am curiose as to what the american lobbiests can do against Canadians? Are there even laws in Canada that will allow american companies to charge Canadians for downloading the material? How can they prove that they stole the material? Will simular laws that work for music material on the net work the same way? If your not distributing are you still doing something illegal? If not would the change in practice to stop using P2P and start using things like usenet and ftps again where technically you aren't distributing the content but making a copy for personal use?
I recall the music industry taking file sharers to court in Canada and the judge saying it was like going to a library and borrowing things, whos to say you don't make a copy?(can't remember if this is exactly what was said and I don't have time to look up a refrance).
For now it seems(from what the artical says) that they are just trying to inform broadband customers that have been noticed that they should change their habbits, but will this lead to lobbiest looking to shut these people down?
I worry because when I miss a show on tv I tend to download it, most of my software is legal I have a ultimate msdn subscription and I mainly run linux as my desktop. What is considered fail use in this day and age on the internet. Who should define that, and why? These are the questions that neither side seems to have a set answer to. You go one way to far you hurt the creater of the material or the user. A balance needs to be cut but where do you draw the line and how do you enforce it so that it suites both groups? The way that the RIAA is going about it seems unfair. I wish that they would send a letter saying stop what your doing or we will sue you. This would have stopped a number of wrongful suits as well as help to stop smart people who don't know better.
The next few years will dictate how things are done, can someone please tell us what the best model should be.
I don't think the RRIA would be attacking Canadians it would most likely be the CRIA(I think thats what they are called) the Canadian version of the RIAA.
I agree, the procedure for something like this would be to assume that it was a legal problem, in which case the person on the other end is suppose to give the contact info for legal and disconnect the call. Having them talk about it further could cause problems for dell as they may say something wrong that will make Dell more liable. Granted some techs do not know the whole proceedure(they are techs they normally don't get calls like that) and may have just disconnected, but if had escalated at some point I don't see why someone would not have at least attempted to give him that information before disconnecting him. This isn't the same as you or I calling in about our monitor not working or a hard drive failing at all.
If all he wanted was a computer exchange I'm sure dell would replace it, but i don't know if he would want it now.
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This is great, I might finally go and give it a try. I just hope theres some music I like thats drm free. If not hopefully some other lables will follow suit.
well you wouldn't have to modify much in the lg ke850 to make it almost identical to the iphone. I don't think apple would be able to sue them for their model I believe it was unvailed before the iphone or at the same time. If neither file suit against eachother(doubtful because I believe LG makes Apple monitors) other manufactures may be able to use the same design. Or patent suit ensuse. Samsungs upstage is pretty spiffy, but I have to say the iphone is the sexiest looking one out of all 3. The question is besides the fan boys whos going to spend the cash on this? I don't think anyone would turn it away, but thats alot for a phone/mp3 player without a plan.
Even if apple does release a phone with an amazing interface, it will be 2 weeks before the other cellular companies steal the idea and put it on their own phones. Not like its hard to modify a gui. It does have features that other phones don't currently have namely its an ipod. But will most people throw down 600 dollars for a phone on top of a contract? Especially when LG or Motorola just copied their interface.
Apple is not going to fail thats not what I'm saying. I just think its too early to say if they are going to dominate the market like they did with the ipod. They probably will redefine it though, and thats good for everyone.
I don't know how I would feel about someone doing surgery on me with a robot over the internet anyways. Besides wouldn't internet2 be a better play field for something like this?
I'm not sure about epilepsy, but i believe there has been some research that shows a link between parkinsons and genetics. Not that you will get it for sure but that you are more likely to get it because you were exposed to certain drugs or enviroment. If these genes are found in someone early maybe they could add the mutated gene to them so that if they do start showing signs of parkinsons they can be treated.
I would think a better cure would be to fix the nerological problems or stop them from degrading futher once they are discovered.
I don't know much about genetics or biochemistry though. This is stuff I just speculate because I like to.
I know your not being seriouse but I was wondering if air conisters would be as prone to explosions as a tank of oxygen. I could see a peirced tank shooting around from the force of the air leaving the tank, but I doubt it would explode. Couldn't be worse, than propane.
I always liked to think of athism as a type of religion anyways. They seem to believe without a shadow of a doubt that there is nothing in the universe and are just as closed minded to other ways of thinking. I generally jump between the two depending on the time of day.
Staying out of it is the only way to avoid getting into a debate that no one can win because no one has the complete answer and is willing to admit it.
I find the key is if your working with alot of computers, to have one external floppy drive laying around just in case. That way you have a way to get sata drivers in the computer or other weird things that you wouldn't think of. Or that game from 1993 that you missed.
I'm not 100% sure but I would think it could.
I did this in collage. Of course I didn't take the time to attach a keyboard, write my own program language and put it in a wooden box. Mine had to be hooked up to a computer so that I could program it and it only had 4 input buttons(you could write a program and get it to do like binary math or something). I always wondered if someone seen it on the street if it was dropped if they would think it was a bomb, small box with a tiny lcd display blinking with wires hanging out(mine had the wires hanging out).
Anyways I think what he did was pretty cool, he took it to a different level. I think alot of people here were just disappointed because it wasn't a laptop that ran any normal OS, the summery was a touch vage or missleading.
You do know what you describe here is not homebrew but playing illegal ROM dumps on your DS. I have no problem with that but I do have a problem with people associating homebrew with ROMs. Now if your just joking that's okay but let people know. Most people on slashdot know the difference but someone somewhere else might not.
So your solution to telling us how much homework isn't good for someone is giving us the homework of reading a book? I don't understand how reading as an adult could be so good for someone but reading as a child can be so harmful. How is 1 hour or so a night of homework bad for a child. Someone mentioned that doing too much homework can hinder imagination. I read alot as a small child, books comics what ever. I think it helped with my imagination, I could fantisize about going to far off worlds or fighting big bad guys. The after school spelling and such helped me pass tests and made me better. I won't say that I didn't hate it at the time because I did, but I don't know where I would be without my Mom pushing me to work on the areas that were a problem(you can probabaly tell spelling is still one of them). I'm not from the U.S. I don't know how different it is down there but I think that homework as a young child not only helps some children develop it also alows them to hibituate to doing homework so when they get to higher levels its not such a chore for them to go and do homework.
Someone else mentioned manditory study hall, this could work if done correctly, but then the children that finish early(smarter ones) would be stuck doing nothing if they finish early.
Even if there was an unlimited number of CD-Keys that could be produced, its still stealing. Thats like saying because there is an unlimited number of seats in a theater its not stealing to take someones seat whos paid is still stealing.
Copyright Infringement might not be theft but its illegal. Also when you steal a key thats not copyright infringement thats stealing because only one copy can be used, so you basically stole someones copy of it. circumventing software authentication is way different than what is being talked about in the article and I think you would find more people morally objecting to this kind of practice.
okay, but would you disagree with it being volunteering? Which I guess was my original disagreement.
I don't agree with your standpoint. I do think that IBM Oracle and other companies benifit from this kind of program. On the other hand most people benifit in some way from contributing code to linux in the first place. People use it for experiance to get a job, to make the OS that they run better, to be apart of something and make themselves feel better. Just because a company is volenteering programmers to the cause because its benifiting them doesn't mean its not volenteering. Its like saying donating to linux because you want it to work better for you so that you can produce more money is not really a donation.
Most people donate, volenteer for something because they know it will benifit them in the end(how many people at Harvard who have volenteering on their application to the school volenteered because it was something they wanted to do, I would guess half does that make their time in a soup kitchen less valuable or appreciated?). This doesn't mean that its any less noble in the end.
I wouldn't put it that its the same as a movie being pirated, usually you could get the content for a movie by going and watching it in the theater within a few days of it being released. The dvd is usually out within 17 months. This is saying you can't even access the media until over a year later in some cases, unless you pirate that media. That I think would drive more people to pirate a TV show than to pirate a movie, as some people will go to a theater to see something but would hate to wait an extra year before they can even legaly see it.
phone your provider and tell them to cut off you internet connection. Don't tell her. When it gets cut off freak out and phone the provider, have a big fight and at the end say "No way don't even bother I'm not dealing with you again" and then hang up. Tell your wife that she will have to go without internet until you are able to find a company that isn't a bunch of assholes. When she leaves to go to the internet cafe down the street call the lock smith, and change the locks. When she gets back make her cancle her WOW subscription and hand over her credit cards. You might have to wait her out on that one but it should work.
Even if the demand for Linux was decent it would still cost alot of money to go that direction. You would need to setup some kind of support network for linux, make sure that the configuration is setup for linux, and setting up imaging computers with it on the get go. Also all those applications that come with the computer when you buy a dell actually bring down the cost of the computer because they are basicly advertisment for those companies. The cost of buying a dell computer may even just go and stablize to the same price as if you had it come with windows(as I'm sure dell has a deal to lower the cost with microsoft seeing as they do the support for microsoft on their installed software). Also dell would have to make sure that all the drivers would work with linux as well and people would start complaining if the drivers weren't opensource.
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It would be nice and there are some options at Dell if you like now. they have an option where you can get a computer loaded with freedos, also its not like Dell is anti-linux, on the server end they sell computers that come with Red Hat. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/so
The problem is setting up a support network for consumers, and the demand that the consumers will want. Its much easier to add a feature and train the existing support staff or to remove something than to institue a whole new operating system.
You know you could use a pen, paper, and hum alot, you don't need a computer. On the other hand you could just buy something that is on the shelf like epson, lexmark, cannon and so on. But you know complain about something like its your only option. That will get em.
As I read your comment, I visualize some wizard on a hill saying everything in your post with black clouds forming over his head. His eyes are turning grey and hes chanting nuances of doom and the ground is starting to shake and everyone is running for their lives. Then I realize your just talking about corp. execs and DRM.
Then I picture some guy in a suit hitting a kid with his breifcase yelling "give me my money" and a cop who was whistling stopping and says "stop, sir do you need help with that?" and then the cop holding the kids arms back while the guy in the suit feeds him punches.
Thats a very good question I am curiose as to what the american lobbiests can do against Canadians? Are there even laws in Canada that will allow american companies to charge Canadians for downloading the material? How can they prove that they stole the material? Will simular laws that work for music material on the net work the same way? If your not distributing are you still doing something illegal? If not would the change in practice to stop using P2P and start using things like usenet and ftps again where technically you aren't distributing the content but making a copy for personal use?
I recall the music industry taking file sharers to court in Canada and the judge saying it was like going to a library and borrowing things, whos to say you don't make a copy?(can't remember if this is exactly what was said and I don't have time to look up a refrance).
For now it seems(from what the artical says) that they are just trying to inform broadband customers that have been noticed that they should change their habbits, but will this lead to lobbiest looking to shut these people down?
I worry because when I miss a show on tv I tend to download it, most of my software is legal I have a ultimate msdn subscription and I mainly run linux as my desktop. What is considered fail use in this day and age on the internet. Who should define that, and why? These are the questions that neither side seems to have a set answer to. You go one way to far you hurt the creater of the material or the user. A balance needs to be cut but where do you draw the line and how do you enforce it so that it suites both groups? The way that the RIAA is going about it seems unfair. I wish that they would send a letter saying stop what your doing or we will sue you. This would have stopped a number of wrongful suits as well as help to stop smart people who don't know better.
The next few years will dictate how things are done, can someone please tell us what the best model should be.
I don't think the RRIA would be attacking Canadians it would most likely be the CRIA(I think thats what they are called) the Canadian version of the RIAA.
If my computer could "see me" I think that it would BSOD its self to sleep. Long long sweet slumber.
I agree, the procedure for something like this would be to assume that it was a legal problem, in which case the person on the other end is suppose to give the contact info for legal and disconnect the call. Having them talk about it further could cause problems for dell as they may say something wrong that will make Dell more liable. Granted some techs do not know the whole proceedure(they are techs they normally don't get calls like that) and may have just disconnected, but if had escalated at some point I don't see why someone would not have at least attempted to give him that information before disconnecting him. This isn't the same as you or I calling in about our monitor not working or a hard drive failing at all.
If all he wanted was a computer exchange I'm sure dell would replace it, but i don't know if he would want it now.