My computer, unfortunately cannot. It starts making a lot of dumb mistakes during an extended days work.
I agree. It's really strage. You get odd stuff happening like if statements always being true, or random compile failures.
Then I come in the next morning and find that some erm... software glitch added a semi colon after an if, or deleted the assignment of a static member variable.
It unfair because it does not take into account people's ability to pay. Or alternatively, that's why it's the fairest system possible.
Depends whether you see local taxation as a payment for something along the lines of a service industry, or as a means of attaining funds to run local services without undue inconvenience to individuals.
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Possibly due to bad publicity they got when they automatically uploaded a BBC program without prior notification, or maybe just bad marketing in the first place.
The BBC thing was a publicity success. Most people haven't a clue about whay a Tivo is. After that they got mentioned in all the newspapers.
They pushed the 'pause live video' selling-point over everything else, and.... maybe that wasn't enough to convince people to shell out.
Possibly. This just isn't a 'sexy' enough a feature for most people. But apart from that, it's very hard to get across how it differs from a VCR.
If they say you violated the license agreement, it is their legal right.
If they say I violated their licence agreement, it's a legal disagreement.
You agreed to their terms when you clicked "I agree."
The witheld the use of a piece of equipment (their software) that I had legally purchased unless I agreed to their terms. I was clearly under duress.
If you violate their terms, your license will be revoked and you will not be able to use their product.
I do not need their licence to use their product. I purchased their product (i.e. the copy of the software) and therefore have the legal right to use it as I see fit within the bounds of copyright.
And how you see things and how the law sees things.. are totally different and the law wins vs you.
How does the law see things? Can you cite legal precedent where it has been shown that somebody who purchased a boxed copy of software is not legally allowed to use it?
Personally, my interpretation of the deal is that I was sold a copy. Any attempt to withold my reasonable use of the product is not a legal right they have.
It probably depends where the data intercept is and whether it was explicitely put there for the purpose of intercepting traffic sent over the network, amongst other things.
I wouldn't really know explicitely. The law is a highly technical area, and my knowledge of it is mostly from private study, but everything is typically taken into account.
After spending about an hour configuring the windowing system to work, I was able to get started. Why is it so sluggish?
Couldn't get The Sims to run. Or MSN for that matter. I tried quake, but the performance was kindof lacklustre, and I had no control over the resolution. But I don't use my PC just for games.
Shame I couldn't use it for Photoshop either. And it didn't seem to support my scanner.
My point is that Linux is not an option for a lot of people. Sure, I could probably find an MSN client, but a lot of applications don't have an alternative. Gimp is nowhere near a replacement for photoshop; This is why Adobe is still charging a lot of money for it. Hardware support is not perfect, especially for more specialised hardware.
I was beginning to think I was the only person to agree with the judge. But it's true. a keyboard logger isn't a wiretap. If it was connected to a network (even a LAN if it was connected to the internet) I'd see it as appropriate, but logging keystrokes is simply too far removed from actually sending that information across a network.
Presumably, the wiretap legislation also doesn't apply to pointing a spy camera at the user's screen, or a bug in a room with a telephone in either. It's not quite clear why congress felt that intercepting communications in transit should be treated differently from other forms of spying on people, but presumably they had a good reason, and it's not up to the judge to speculate on those reasons.
It's the whoe "wiretapping" that you don't understand. The law probably spends seeral pages describing it, without mentioning the words "wire" or "tap";)
But really to be wiretapping it has to apply to long distance communications. Keyboard to computer is not long distance.
Sigh. Trolls used to be a whole lot better. In the old days, someone would have argued that not watching advertising was equivalent to murder, or something.
I suppose you live in a magical world with commercial blocks that are multiples of 30 seconds long all the time?
I do. I don't know how they do it where you are, but I'd expect them to sell advertising space in blocks of 30 seconds. Even if they have shorter blocks, they're most likely to do that by splutting up a 30 second block. It makes scheduling so much easier.
I haven't seen any proof, one way or the other, of who is exactly benifiting from this. I would imagine the Networks are getting a lions share of the revenue. Or maybe the networks will dicate which ads get placed, and Tivo just complies.
Why would they do that? Out of the goodness of their hearts?
Cry me a friggn river. Oh no! They're going to show me non-invasive ads that in no way impeed my use of the product! Help me! Help me! The sky is falling!
Now you're being silly. No,the sky is not falling. No, it's not a disaster. It's simply thet they're showing a complete disregard for the feelings of their customers, which is bad PR.
If the advertisers don't figure it out, you'll see less money flowing to the TV networks and, a potential reduction in TV show budgets. Now, wouldn't THAT be a disaster! Those overpaid actors and network executives would start losing money.
Surely creative destruction means they'll probably switch to a subscription model. The advertisers will switch their advertising to places where more people will see them. Either that or TV will be replaced with a Video on demand system (something which I believe would already be making money if the studios weren't so hung up on piracy concerns).
I disagree. I think, most people, bought Tivo for its timeshifting and season pass features. Are commercials really so bad?
It's just that they're chaning the deal. Original deal - We pay for the hardware and pay a subscription. New deal - We pay forthe hardware, we pay for a subscription and now they try to sell us stuff. We never agreed to that.
You people need to get a life. The Networks generate their revenue off of sponsorship (read: commercials). Commercials are how the networks pay for all these shows you're watching! What don't you understand?
That's all well and good. How does TiVO advertising help the networks? IT seems the profit goes to TiVO.
It could have worked under Netscape's old business model where the browser was simply a means to increase demand for web servers. But I don't think anyone in the software industry uses this business model any more.
Of course, pretty much nobody ever sold a browser anyway. Netscape's idea of selling their browser never really made huge sales figures, and Opera isn't exactly doing astoundingly.
Personally, I hope Disney put a lot of effort into creating a great story, that becomes really succesful and provides lots of joy to millions. Would be nice to dsee the mouse get back to making decent animations.
And they can do good movies. The best film I saw in the last couple of yearswas a disney film.
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My computer, unfortunately cannot. It starts making a lot of dumb mistakes during an extended days work.
I agree. It's really strage. You get odd stuff happening like if statements always being true, or random compile failures.
Then I come in the next morning and find that some erm... software glitch added a semi colon after an if, or deleted the assignment of a static member variable.
It unfair because it does not take into account people's ability to pay. Or alternatively, that's why it's the fairest system possible.
Depends whether you see local taxation as a payment for something along the lines of a service industry, or as a means of attaining funds to run local services without undue inconvenience to individuals.
Possibly due to bad publicity they got when they automatically uploaded a BBC program without prior notification, or maybe just bad marketing in the first place.
The BBC thing was a publicity success. Most people haven't a clue about whay a Tivo is. After that they got mentioned in all the newspapers.
They pushed the 'pause live video' selling-point over everything else, and.... maybe that wasn't enough to convince people to shell out.
Possibly. This just isn't a 'sexy' enough a feature for most people. But apart from that, it's very hard to get across how it differs from a VCR.
If they say you violated the license agreement, it is their legal right.
If they say I violated their licence agreement, it's a legal disagreement.
You agreed to their terms when you clicked "I agree."
The witheld the use of a piece of equipment (their software) that I had legally purchased unless I agreed to their terms. I was clearly under duress.
If you violate their terms, your license will be revoked and you will not be able to use their product.
I do not need their licence to use their product. I purchased their product (i.e. the copy of the software) and therefore have the legal right to use it as I see fit within the bounds of copyright.
And how you see things and how the law sees things.. are totally different and the law wins vs you.
How does the law see things? Can you cite legal precedent where it has been shown that somebody who purchased a boxed copy of software is not legally allowed to use it?
Well, that's how the comany claims it works.
Personally, my interpretation of the deal is that I was sold a copy. Any attempt to withold my reasonable use of the product is not a legal right they have.
It probably depends where the data intercept is and whether it was explicitely put there for the purpose of intercepting traffic sent over the network, amongst other things.
I wouldn't really know explicitely. The law is a highly technical area, and my knowledge of it is mostly from private study, but everything is typically taken into account.
You're welcome. It's something I like to mention every once in a while. There are always a few people who haven't seen it before.
This being slashdot, I'm tempted to extend the anaolgy, but I won't beause I hate that sort of thing.
I'm not sure it's the same situation. People are asking for one thing and getting something else.
Not that I think there's anything wrong with it. Most people who asked for one thing actually wanted what they ended up with.
Who will watch the watchmen?
They didn't mention The story about ping Clearly the best introduction to this network test tool.
Just look at the reviews, especially the one from John E. Fracisco.
Yup. And ease of installing extensions can't be beaten. In firefox I actually have to click on something, whereas IE will do it automatically.
Well, I tried this Lunix thing you mentioned.
After spending about an hour configuring the windowing system to work, I was able to get started. Why is it so sluggish?
Couldn't get The Sims to run. Or MSN for that matter. I tried quake, but the performance was kindof lacklustre, and I had no control over the resolution. But I don't use my PC just for games.
Shame I couldn't use it for Photoshop either. And it didn't seem to support my scanner.
My point is that Linux is not an option for a lot of people. Sure, I could probably find an MSN client, but a lot of applications don't have an alternative. Gimp is nowhere near a replacement for photoshop; This is why Adobe is still charging a lot of money for it. Hardware support is not perfect, especially for more specialised hardware.
Quite.
I was beginning to think I was the only person to agree with the judge. But it's true. a keyboard logger isn't a wiretap. If it was connected to a network (even a LAN if it was connected to the internet) I'd see it as appropriate, but logging keystrokes is simply too far removed from actually sending that information across a network.
Presumably, the wiretap legislation also doesn't apply to pointing a spy camera at the user's screen, or a bug in a room with a telephone in either. It's not quite clear why congress felt that intercepting communications in transit should be treated differently from other forms of spying on people, but presumably they had a good reason, and it's not up to the judge to speculate on those reasons.
It's the whoe "wiretapping" that you don't understand. The law probably spends seeral pages describing it, without mentioning the words "wire" or "tap";)
But really to be wiretapping it has to apply to long distance communications. Keyboard to computer is not long distance.
Most people who care about this sort of stuff will assume that anything might have spyware crap until its proved that it hasn't.
When it comes to a secure computer, paranoia is considered a virtue.
But you're forgetting - Lambda represents the decay constant, so the actualk name is Hdecay constantLF LIFE
No, but I guess it's "thin enough" (for some applications). Certainly quite a nice depth for a 30" TV. Takes up less space in the living room.
Or how about just use a camera. These are avaialble for next to nothing.
Best troll I've read all week.
Sigh. Trolls used to be a whole lot better. In the old days, someone would have argued that not watching advertising was equivalent to murder, or something.
I suppose you live in a magical world with commercial blocks that are multiples of 30 seconds long all the time?
I do. I don't know how they do it where you are, but I'd expect them to sell advertising space in blocks of 30 seconds. Even if they have shorter blocks, they're most likely to do that by splutting up a 30 second block. It makes scheduling so much easier.
I haven't seen any proof, one way or the other, of who is exactly benifiting from this. I would imagine the Networks are getting a lions share of the revenue. Or maybe the networks will dicate which ads get placed, and Tivo just complies.
Why would they do that? Out of the goodness of their hearts?
Cry me a friggn river. Oh no! They're going to show me non-invasive ads that in no way impeed my use of the product! Help me! Help me! The sky is falling!
Now you're being silly. No,the sky is not falling. No, it's not a disaster. It's simply thet they're showing a complete disregard for the feelings of their customers, which is bad PR.
If the advertisers don't figure it out, you'll see less money flowing to the TV networks and, a potential reduction in TV show budgets. Now, wouldn't THAT be a disaster! Those overpaid actors and network executives would start losing money.
Surely creative destruction means they'll probably switch to a subscription model. The advertisers will switch their advertising to places where more people will see them. Either that or TV will be replaced with a Video on demand system (something which I believe would already be making money if the studios weren't so hung up on piracy concerns).
I disagree. I think, most people, bought Tivo for its timeshifting and season pass features. Are commercials really so bad?
It's just that they're chaning the deal. Original deal - We pay for the hardware and pay a subscription. New deal - We pay forthe hardware, we pay for a subscription and now they try to sell us stuff. We never agreed to that.
You people need to get a life. The Networks generate their revenue off of sponsorship (read: commercials). Commercials are how the networks pay for all these shows you're watching! What don't you understand?
That's all well and good. How does TiVO advertising help the networks? IT seems the profit goes to TiVO.
I think you're right.
It could have worked under Netscape's old business model where the browser was simply a means to increase demand for web servers. But I don't think anyone in the software industry uses this business model any more.
Of course, pretty much nobody ever sold a browser anyway. Netscape's idea of selling their browser never really made huge sales figures, and Opera isn't exactly doing astoundingly.
Personally, I hope Disney put a lot of effort into creating a great story, that becomes really succesful and provides lots of joy to millions. Would be nice to dsee the mouse get back to making decent animations.
And they can do good movies. The best film I saw in the last couple of yearswas a disney film.