I am a lawyer, and as such I can state with confidence that you're a fucking retard. There is no such statute in patent law. You should stick to talking about things you understand, in your case that'd be masterbation, in my case that would be being a Bad Person.
First of all, PPV is only $3 or $4 unless you're watching porn, or a title boxing match. Secondly, why the hell should I spend money on tapes, and furniture to store the tapes, when I'm almost never going to want to watch the movie again, or if I do, I'll want it on DVD?
The idea that I don't need to stockpile anything is very appealing to me. The only thing better than PPV will be pay-per-view-on-demand, so I can watch anything, at anytime, without having to have any physical media at all.
I spend money on PPV, and I don't videotape the PPV broadcast. Why on earth would I want to bother spending money on tapes, when most of the time I'll either not want to watch the movie again, or I'll want it on DVD for the extra features.
VHS has rental pricing and regular pricing, with the rental version being released earlier, and actually being made of higher quality tape. DVD only has one pricing model, so Blockbuster gets those DVDs for whatever the wholesale price is for each disc.
I don't usually make a special trip, but I do drive about two miles out of my way, and I don't even live in the country. When I do have to make a special trip, it's about a 7 or 8 mile drive, each way.
Making a DVD requires very very few resources compared to the drive to go get one. It's not entirely evil, just because it might make money.
I read Philip and Alex and all I could keep thinking is 'Christ this guy is a pompous ass'.
It's clear, even in his writings, that his way is the right way, period. It's also clear that his biggest concern is getting money, to keep up with his friends, and he expects that the reader is also mostly concerned with money, instead of learning or doing something useful.
Since when does the ability to use pointers mean that something is wrong? C allows a lot of 'unsafe' code to be written, yet we're all using operating systems writting in C, with very little trouble caused by the OS itself.
Sure, it'd be great (for Sun) for everybody to rewrite the world in Java, but in reality nobody can justify requiring 50% higher CPU usage in exchange for the ability to let programmers be careless.
I'm not saying Java is a bad thing at all, merely that C# isn't any worse than C, C++, perl or python. It's a shame when a press release manages to get linked from slashdot's main page, but that's all this is. Sorry Joy, but I'm not buying it.
no, in real companies they employ tech writers. Secretaries generally have to type memos, create powerpoints, arrange schedules, filter visitors and for the front-desk secretary, have big tits.
The monthly fee is for suckers. $250 gets you lifetime now. Not as cheap as it once was, but not terrible at all. If you can afford a TiVo, you can afford lifetime service.
You can get them right now, no prob, from tivo.com, though I actually just bought another one at circuit city a few days ago. I had the same problem at Christmas though, when I was trying to buy tivos as presents.
The DirecTiVo is slightly easier to find, but your best bet is still to buy online and wait impatiently for a day.
Yes he has, if you try to post a long string of characters you get the error:
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: That's an awful long string of letters there.
It used to just insert a space after N characters (40 some, I think), now it doesn't even allow the post. Makes for good fun if you try to share a website that uses all 63 characters in it's domain name.
You can get 14.4 with an acoustic coupler, no damage to anything. You can get a full-speed connection if you cut off the handset and hook up with alligator clips. I have this on authority of a lawn gnome, who claims to be a very l33t hax0r.
As far as hacking the DoD goes, talk to their admins. They have far shittier security than most decent-sized companies.
The batteries are only rated to last a year, and yeah, they tend to be backordered.
The row of keys means your motherboard went bad, if you have completecare they'll come to your place and replace it for you, that symptom will be enough to get them to do that for you. I work for a company that has dell laptops, and have a cubicle next to the helpdesk, I hear those two problems all fucking day long.
I've sold 5 items on ebay over three years. They all started at a buck. Does that make me a regular seller? Ummmm... no.
If you want to know if the person is a regular seller there's this thing called feedback... look at how much of it they have, you can even look at the details to get the dates it was left! Amazing!
I posted the parent comment at +2. Since then it has received 7 positive, and one negative moderation, which should leave it at the impossible value of +8. It's obviously not at +8, it's at +5 at the moment.
Is there some legitimate way for this to happen, or were slashdot editors manually editing the moderation points on my post? Is there even a way to tell?
If it's the latter, then I'd love to know what about the parent post is so terrible that this was neccessary. Is the mere idea that perhaps slashdot could have been given incorrect information so objectionable?
I appreciate any input from those knowledgeable about how slashdot moderation really works.
My ISP can get my external MAC address no problem. After all, they control my cable modem, so they can query the cable modem, and get my MAC, no problem.
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And how do you get that when CNID information is easily spoofable? Oh wait, you don't, unless you're the FBI or the phone company.
I am a lawyer, and as such I can state with confidence that you're a fucking retard. There is no such statute in patent law. You should stick to talking about things you understand, in your case that'd be masterbation, in my case that would be being a Bad Person.
what you're describing isn't passion, it's masturbation.
If by 'popular' you mean that they're fun to play with when you're stoned, if you're too poor to own DJ equipment, then yes, they're popular.
First of all, PPV is only $3 or $4 unless you're watching porn, or a title boxing match. Secondly, why the hell should I spend money on tapes, and furniture to store the tapes, when I'm almost never going to want to watch the movie again, or if I do, I'll want it on DVD?
The idea that I don't need to stockpile anything is very appealing to me. The only thing better than PPV will be pay-per-view-on-demand, so I can watch anything, at anytime, without having to have any physical media at all.
I spend money on PPV, and I don't videotape the PPV broadcast. Why on earth would I want to bother spending money on tapes, when most of the time I'll either not want to watch the movie again, or I'll want it on DVD for the extra features.
That was VHS, not DVD. DVD does not have the broken two-tiered pricing scheme that VHS had.
VHS has rental pricing and regular pricing, with the rental version being released earlier, and actually being made of higher quality tape. DVD only has one pricing model, so Blockbuster gets those DVDs for whatever the wholesale price is for each disc.
Making a DVD requires very very few resources compared to the drive to go get one. It's not entirely evil, just because it might make money.
It's clear, even in his writings, that his way is the right way, period. It's also clear that his biggest concern is getting money, to keep up with his friends, and he expects that the reader is also mostly concerned with money, instead of learning or doing something useful.
Wow, so Sun doesn't like MS technologies. What's next, Microsoft spreading FUD about Open Source?
Sure, it'd be great (for Sun) for everybody to rewrite the world in Java, but in reality nobody can justify requiring 50% higher CPU usage in exchange for the ability to let programmers be careless.
I'm not saying Java is a bad thing at all, merely that C# isn't any worse than C, C++, perl or python. It's a shame when a press release manages to get linked from slashdot's main page, but that's all this is. Sorry Joy, but I'm not buying it.
you do like mankind don't you? If you don't, then the terrorists have already won.
no, in real companies they employ tech writers. Secretaries generally have to type memos, create powerpoints, arrange schedules, filter visitors and for the front-desk secretary, have big tits.
The monthly fee is for suckers. $250 gets you lifetime now. Not as cheap as it once was, but not terrible at all. If you can afford a TiVo, you can afford lifetime service.
The DirecTiVo is slightly easier to find, but your best bet is still to buy online and wait impatiently for a day.
It used to just insert a space after N characters (40 some, I think), now it doesn't even allow the post. Makes for good fun if you try to share a website that uses all 63 characters in it's domain name.
As far as hacking the DoD goes, talk to their admins. They have far shittier security than most decent-sized companies.
The row of keys means your motherboard went bad, if you have completecare they'll come to your place and replace it for you, that symptom will be enough to get them to do that for you. I work for a company that has dell laptops, and have a cubicle next to the helpdesk, I hear those two problems all fucking day long.
Actually on most of the decent phones it's built right into the phone, no service required, no fee beyond the original purchase price.
If you want to know if the person is a regular seller there's this thing called feedback... look at how much of it they have, you can even look at the details to get the dates it was left! Amazing!
Is there some legitimate way for this to happen, or were slashdot editors manually editing the moderation points on my post? Is there even a way to tell?
If it's the latter, then I'd love to know what about the parent post is so terrible that this was neccessary. Is the mere idea that perhaps slashdot could have been given incorrect information so objectionable?
I appreciate any input from those knowledgeable about how slashdot moderation really works.
My ISP can get my external MAC address no problem. After all, they control my cable modem, so they can query the cable modem, and get my MAC, no problem.