I personally am sick of recurring expenses. I'm being subscribed to death. It seems like everyone wants a piece of me, monthly.
I love the idea of Siruis/XM radio but I'm not buying because the last thing I need is another monthly bill. The only reason I have a TiVo is because they offered the lifetime subscription.
Let me pay up front for my software and hardware and I'll own it until it's doesn't work for me anymore.
If I have to pay every month, quarter or year just to run Bill's software, you can count me out. Count my family out too because I'll suffer the pain of switching them over to open source/free software.
Why should everyone pay? Isn't it enough that grandma pays $14.95 a month just to send email to her family?
Paying per message on top of the ISP fee would seem to me like paying monthly to have a mailbox on the front of the house or at the end of the driveway on top of $.37 per item you send.
If a pay system has to be put into place to stop this then there needs to be a way for recipients to give out tokens so people like grandma can get the email through for free.
Do you keep any backups? The library I work at keeps extensive backups because we once had a massive failure. If you have backups, chances are you'll also have at least some historical data on what patrons have checked out.
This sort of checkout and return is already being done with electronic books. Netlibrary provides books that you can read online. There are a limited number of copies so when all of the Mastering Regular Expression copies are checked out you have to wait until one is returned before you can use it. There is also a due date and the book is automatically returned on that date.
It does require you to create an account through an existing traditional library.
I work for a large library system spread over hundreds of miles. Our users are not tech savvy. The don't understand why certain types of behavior are risky.
What we do to bring it home is post descriptions of incidents on our daily news page that everyone reads. If Martha from the Podunk public library gets a virus through an attachment that wipes out her computer and she's stuck writing barcodes on paper while we fix it, we describe the situation in the daily news. We post the activity, the consequences and how to prevent it in the future.
We do not make the name of the people involved public. Embarassment is usually not necessary.
We find that this technique is very effective and does not limit our staff's freedom to do what the need to do.
I've found myself going overboard on things that are new to me all the time. It might be a new game that I spend 12 hours playing the first day or spending all day driving around a new car.
The problem is when people go overboard on things where someone gets hurt. I don't agree with anyone that says a violent video game leads to real life violent action.
98lite only works on 98 and ME, but if all you want to do is remove IE from Windows, IEradicator (from the same site), will do it for Win95 through Win2k.
Mandrake wants a method to gain recurring revenue. They don't want to raise money through selling stocks since it doesn't solve their long term money needs. What they're really doing is easing into a subscription model. It's voluntary but it's basically a subscription.
It seems to me that a centralized password system just defeats the purpose of having different passwords. If you can compromize the password system, you've compromized everything.
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Who would actually be a customer of BOTH of these companies. It sounds to me like the point of WinWhatWhere is to hide and watch you while the point if Who's Watching Me is to find a program like WinWhatWhere that you don't exists on your computer.
It seems to me that once you find out about the spying software you'd take steps to remove it. I can understand that it the spy software could break Who's Watching Me if WWM was previously installed but if WWM is installed after the spy software I wouldn't think it would be a problem.
I could be wrong since I haven't run into the situation myself.
I'll agree to an extent. Those who are educated will be able to make the right decision, but what does Grandma know about technology?
If the label simply says "copy protected" it really doesn't give an immediate impression of what you're buying. If we labeled the copy protected CDs "CRIPPLED" then buyers would smell something fishy right off. You don't have to be a geek to understand that a crippled CD might present a problem.
I would take one step beyond labeling and short of banning copy protected CDs. Give consumers the right of unconditional return. It doesn't matter if the CD has been opened or not. It doesn't matter if the CD was purchased three years ago. The retailer or record company must reimburse the CD holder.
That would make retailers and CD makers think twice about carrying/producing crippled CDs. If someone did buy a CD, copy it to an uncrippled format and return it, they'd be out a sale. But the people who aren't so tech savy wouldn't be screwed because they purchased an intentionally defective product.
This was a great hardware hack. I had to think about it for a bit since I have a HM+H rev 1.1 and it wasn't mentioned. It appears that the general rule is to jumper from J2 to R29 so I did and it worked.
Now, where's the application? I don't really care about scanning my canned peas and having a database show me that they're canned peas made by Green Giant. I don't keep a large collection of books.
How about a Winamp plugin so I can print a list, scan the songs I want and they'll be enqueued?This would be great for a party, for example, because you could let the people pick the music but they wouldn't be less able to screw with the system.
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I personally am sick of recurring expenses. I'm being subscribed to death. It seems like everyone wants a piece of me, monthly.
I love the idea of Siruis/XM radio but I'm not buying because the last thing I need is another monthly bill. The only reason I have a TiVo is because they offered the lifetime subscription.
Let me pay up front for my software and hardware and I'll own it until it's doesn't work for me anymore.
If I have to pay every month, quarter or year just to run Bill's software, you can count me out. Count my family out too because I'll suffer the pain of switching them over to open source/free software.
What are the chances the RIAA will become another place employers add to their list of sources for background checks?
Why should everyone pay? Isn't it enough that grandma pays $14.95 a month just to send email to her family?
Paying per message on top of the ISP fee would seem to me like paying monthly to have a mailbox on the front of the house or at the end of the driveway on top of $.37 per item you send.
If a pay system has to be put into place to stop this then there needs to be a way for recipients to give out tokens so people like grandma can get the email through for free.
Do you keep any backups? The library I work at keeps extensive backups because we once had a massive failure. If you have backups, chances are you'll also have at least some historical data on what patrons have checked out.
This sort of checkout and return is already being done with electronic books. Netlibrary provides books that you can read online. There are a limited number of copies so when all of the Mastering Regular Expression copies are checked out you have to wait until one is returned before you can use it. There is also a due date and the book is automatically returned on that date.
It does require you to create an account through an existing traditional library.
I work for a large library system spread over hundreds of miles. Our users are not tech savvy. The don't understand why certain types of behavior are risky.
What we do to bring it home is post descriptions of incidents on our daily news page that everyone reads. If Martha from the Podunk public library gets a virus through an attachment that wipes out her computer and she's stuck writing barcodes on paper while we fix it, we describe the situation in the daily news. We post the activity, the consequences and how to prevent it in the future.
We do not make the name of the people involved public. Embarassment is usually not necessary.
We find that this technique is very effective and does not limit our staff's freedom to do what the need to do.
I've found myself going overboard on things that are new to me all the time. It might be a new game that I spend 12 hours playing the first day or spending all day driving around a new car.
The problem is when people go overboard on things where someone gets hurt. I don't agree with anyone that says a violent video game leads to real life violent action.
98lite only works on 98 and ME, but if all you want to do is remove IE from Windows, IEradicator (from the same site), will do it for Win95 through Win2k.
Mandrake wants a method to gain recurring revenue. They don't want to raise money through selling stocks since it doesn't solve their long term money needs. What they're really doing is easing into a subscription model. It's voluntary but it's basically a subscription.
It seems to me that a centralized password system just defeats the purpose of having different passwords. If you can compromize the password system, you've compromized everything.
Who would actually be a customer of BOTH of these companies. It sounds to me like the point of WinWhatWhere is to hide and watch you while the point if Who's Watching Me is to find a program like WinWhatWhere that you don't exists on your computer.
It seems to me that once you find out about the spying software you'd take steps to remove it. I can understand that it the spy software could break Who's Watching Me if WWM was previously installed but if WWM is installed after the spy software I wouldn't think it would be a problem.
I could be wrong since I haven't run into the situation myself.
I'll agree to an extent. Those who are educated will be able to make the right decision, but what does Grandma know about technology?
If the label simply says "copy protected" it really doesn't give an immediate impression of what you're buying. If we labeled the copy protected CDs "CRIPPLED" then buyers would smell something fishy right off. You don't have to be a geek to understand that a crippled CD might present a problem.
I would take one step beyond labeling and short of banning copy protected CDs. Give consumers the right of unconditional return. It doesn't matter if the CD has been opened or not. It doesn't matter if the CD was purchased three years ago. The retailer or record company must reimburse the CD holder.
That would make retailers and CD makers think twice about carrying/producing crippled CDs. If someone did buy a CD, copy it to an uncrippled format and return it, they'd be out a sale. But the people who aren't so tech savy wouldn't be screwed because they purchased an intentionally defective product.
This was a great hardware hack. I had to think about it for a bit since I have a HM+H rev 1.1 and it wasn't mentioned. It appears that the general rule is to jumper from J2 to R29 so I did and it worked.
Now, where's the application? I don't really care about scanning my canned peas and having a database show me that they're canned peas made by Green Giant. I don't keep a large collection of books.
How about a Winamp plugin so I can print a list, scan the songs I want and they'll be enqueued?This would be great for a party, for example, because you could let the people pick the music but they wouldn't be less able to screw with the system.