This is very true. I have an Atari 400 with a membrane keyboard (which I would suspect uses said peizoelectric material), and that keyboard became very difficult to use after only 8 or so years of use, and is now sadly collecting dust because of its near-inoperabilaity
It's not just software that's overpackaged these days. Ever tried to get into a bag of Oreos recently? There's about two layers of (mostly) unnecessary packaging:
-a peice of cardboard inside the bag, just so the bag doesn't get crumpled -a celophane wrapper around the plastic tray that actually holds the cookies or, inversely the paper bag itself could be done away with and just have the plastic tray in its celophane wrapper.
I find it rather sickening that corporations feel the need to kill more trees just to make sure their products don't get so much as a scratch on them during shipping. I remember back when Oreos came in two layers of packaging.. a paper bag, with a paper tray to hold the cookies. It's still killing trees, but at least they could make all of that out of recycled paper.
Which leads me off on another tangent.. out of the massive volume of paper we must be recycling these days, how much of it actually goes back into circulation? And how many businesses actually make a practice of recycling paper instead of just throwing it away?
Apogee logo 3D Realms logo Duke Nukem Bombshell Dr. Proton General Phil Graves Come get some Hail to the king King of action King of carnage ---> The yellow "Duke Nukem" title logo --- The yellow nuke symbol Planet of the Babes Time to Kill Zero Hour Max Payne Talon Brave Prey Shadow Warrior Lo Wang Pinball Wizards Balls of Steel
How can they trademark the symbol for hazardous radiation? I guess every nuclear power plant in existence is now violating Apogee's license agreement.
Someone else seems to have already pretty much made this but, but I'll say it differently.
This battle over MP3s is very pointless. How many people, long before MP3s, have made complete copies and/or mix tapes, CDs or minidiscs of music? If MP3 is such a big threat, why are they ignoring these other mediums that allow the exact same thing?
Downloading an album's worth of MP3s from the internet and burning them to a CD is the exact same thing as copying a full album onto a CD, tape or minidisc and sending it to your friend in another city through the postal service. The only difference is that the internet is faster in getting the package to you.
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Speaking of AT&T.. that's would I would compare this to, not Microsoft.
Microsoft makes software to "increase productivity". AOL is a communications company, and so is Time/Warner. AT&T is a communications company that was forced to split up because of a monopoly. I can see the same thing happening to AOL now. It's all a matter of time...
So what if there's no market for MP3s? There's was never any market for.wav files either, but lots of different samples have been stolen from TV, radio and music all the time, and they still seem pretty popular.
So what if there's no market for MP3s? There's was never any market for.wav files either, but lots of different samples have been stolen from TV, radio and music all the time, and they still seem pretty popular.
My experience with motherboards that have sound and video built in has been that the video is generally horrible to deal with - some motherboards don't like it if you go set your video RAM to 4MB and won't boot. You could always turn off your on-board video, but then you paid good money for the thing. Seems like a waste of time to me.. sound and and video should be kept on cards where they belong.
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This is very true. I have an Atari 400 with a membrane keyboard (which I would suspect uses said peizoelectric material), and that keyboard became very difficult to use after only 8 or so years of use, and is now sadly collecting dust because of its near-inoperabilaity
Even if it isn't legal, there may still be ways around it, ie hiding the message in a .jpg
If you can do that, then the only thing to worry about is someone finding out you have encryption software.
Well, ok.. but only if he's allowed to wield a chainsaw and a shotgun, shout "THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK!" at least once, and work undercover at S-MART.
It's not just software that's overpackaged these days. Ever tried to get into a bag of Oreos recently? There's about two layers of (mostly) unnecessary packaging:
-a peice of cardboard inside the bag, just so the bag doesn't get crumpled
-a celophane wrapper around the plastic tray that actually holds the cookies or, inversely the paper bag itself could be done away with and just have the plastic tray in its celophane wrapper.
I find it rather sickening that corporations feel the need to kill more trees just to make sure their products don't get so much as a scratch on them during shipping. I remember back when Oreos came in two layers of packaging.. a paper bag, with a paper tray to hold the cookies. It's still killing trees, but at least they could make all of that out of recycled paper.
Which leads me off on another tangent.. out of the massive volume of paper we must be recycling these days, how much of it actually goes back into circulation? And how many businesses actually make a practice of recycling paper instead of just throwing it away?
It hasn't been new in at least a decade. The Tiannenman Square massacre happened in 1988, IIRC.
Get a load of this:
Here's a partial list of Apogee trademarks:
Apogee logo
3D Realms logo
Duke Nukem
Bombshell
Dr. Proton
General Phil Graves
Come get some
Hail to the king
King of action
King of carnage
---> The yellow "Duke Nukem" title logo ---
The yellow nuke symbol
Planet of the Babes
Time to Kill
Zero Hour
Max Payne
Talon Brave
Prey
Shadow Warrior
Lo Wang
Pinball Wizards
Balls of Steel
How can they trademark the symbol for hazardous radiation? I guess every nuclear power plant in existence is now violating Apogee's license agreement.
Gee, Shaggy, I couldn't see *THAT* coming from a billion miles away!
Someone else seems to have already pretty much made this but, but I'll say it differently.
This battle over MP3s is very pointless. How many people, long before MP3s, have made complete copies and/or mix tapes, CDs or minidiscs of music? If MP3 is such a big threat, why are they ignoring these other mediums that allow the exact same thing?
Downloading an album's worth of MP3s from the internet and burning them to a CD is the exact same thing as copying a full album onto a CD, tape or minidisc and sending it to your friend in another city through the postal service. The only difference is that the internet is faster in getting the package to you.
IIRC, the kid that coded DeCSS lives in Norway. Don't think you're out of jurisdiction anymore just because you live in another country.
Wouldn't this make spam good? It might mean people can make money from getting spammed :)
A reliable OS? In the world of hacking/cracking, everything is an unreliable OS.
If you want to secure your computer from the internet, don't use the internet.
Douglas Adams - the increasingly inaccurately named "Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy" trilogy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul
Larry Niven - Ringworld, The Ringworld Engineers
Speaking of AT&T.. that's would I would compare this to, not Microsoft.
Microsoft makes software to "increase productivity". AOL is a communications company, and so is Time/Warner. AT&T is a communications company that was forced to split up because of a monopoly. I can see the same thing happening to AOL now. It's all a matter of time...
So what if there's no market for MP3s? There's was never any market for .wav files either, but lots of different samples have been stolen from TV, radio and music all the time, and they still seem pretty popular.
So what if there's no market for MP3s? There's was never any market for .wav files either, but lots of different samples have been stolen from TV, radio and music all the time, and they still seem pretty popular.
My experience with motherboards that have sound and video built in has been that the video is generally horrible to deal with - some motherboards don't like it if you go set your video RAM to 4MB and won't boot. You could always turn off your on-board video, but then you paid good money for the thing. Seems like a waste of time to me.. sound and and video should be kept on cards where they belong.