Sure, it's a good idea. And I really don't mind there being more competition in the market, but isn't CafePress already doing this with all sorts of apparel and other easily printable goods? In addition, isn't Stamps.com already doing this with stamps. And aren't there a numberofsites that do this with photographs?
Yeah, printing customized materials cheaply is a great service... and combining the best features of all the currently available sites can only benefit us as a whole, but it's not unique and I'd be surprised if it were a big success.
The part that always strikes me as weird about that arguement is that from the companies point of view, it doesn't matter if there's one person pirating the content, or if everyone's pirating it. Once a pirated copy at full quality and no DRM gets released, it will be duplicated until everyone who wants to steal a copy of the original will do so. So, if that's the case, DRM is only useful to the media companies if they can prevent ALL users from pirating the content.
And that's the problem. I find it hard to believe that any DRM will be able to prevent a single copy of the content in question from being released onto the internet. And once it's out, it's out. No amount of DRM or wishing will put it back in. The person who will be most inconvenienced will not be the high end pirate, who will find a way around the system, but the low grade pirate and the home user. It seems as though the media companies are going after the wrong target.
I just finished reading Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town last night. (Good timing, eh?) Not only that, but I read the whole thing on a palm pilot for free with permission, which made me feel better than all the books I've read on the thing without permission. Anyway, it's pretty good, but I'd say Doctorow earlier works were stronger. The "unconventionalness" was sort of it never really seemed to get explained or justified. I guess that was probably the point, but I got to the end and felt like there was still more story that I missed out on. I guess I felt something similar at the ends of his previous novels as well, but they just seemed more self contained.
So you're saying that the schools should, in addition to music, archive warez iso, dvd rips of movies, dvd images and porn locally to reduce stress on the bandwidth? This is a great idea. I just don't know if Dell is going to be as excited about teaming up with the goatse guy to deliver local, hi-quality porn as they were to team up with Napster.
Maybe the goatse guy can partner with apple? They seem to have some unique market penetration these days.
Isn't it just because of the frame of reference?
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I thought the moon appeared larger while on the horizon because suddenly the moon appears to be right next to objects whose size we can comprehend. In the middle of a night sky, the mooon is just a circle of light in a giant black space, on the horizon the moon is much much larger than buildings we know to be enormous. Even if against nothing more than the horizon, it still seems bigger because at least it's next to SOMETHING.
Those paypalsucks people have been very strident in the past. Just to a positive note out there, I've used paypal for years and have never had a single problem with them, both as a buyer and as a seller.
Yeah, it would work fine until somebody smashed your hand with a hammer. Cheating in casinos, especially in obvious ways that include technology with no purpose other than to cheat, or frowned upon and not recommended.
Have you ever watched poker on TV? Did you notice that the same few people seem to be at the final table a disproportional percentage of the time. It's because although the cards themselves are random, the game is not. Every bet and every action is a subtle piece of a conversation about your perceived strength of your own hand versus your perceived strengths of your opponents.
There's a lot of skill. It's not simply high card wins. The really good poker players willoften win without the best hands, because they know when their opponents are weak and will be willing to give up on a pot.
Seriously, though, I much MUCH prefer the touchpad to the weird touchpoint things. I always found them basically unusable. I'm sure if I owned one I could configure it to be more functional, but they always seemed awkward and difficult to direct. In addition they were generally, and for reasons impossible to figure, located in the middle of the keyboard. Do I really need a mouse getting in the way when I'm trying to type? At least put the damned things out of the way.
Anyway, yeah, I hate those things. I'm glad they're fading away.
On the other other hand, I really like non-widescreen displays on laptops, and those seem to be fading away as well. Again, you can still find them, but only on a few models and not the ones you want. It's sad when you like a feature that's being phased out.
That's a lousy example. Didn't he fight to promote DC because he held the patent on DC current and NOT on AC current? It had nothing to do with being a bad idea, it had to do with Edison wanting to cash in on his invention.
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Sure, it's a good idea. And I really don't mind there being more competition in the market, but isn't CafePress already doing this with all sorts of apparel and other easily printable goods? In addition, isn't Stamps.com already doing this with stamps. And aren't there a number of sites that do this with photographs?
Yeah, printing customized materials cheaply is a great service... and combining the best features of all the currently available sites can only benefit us as a whole, but it's not unique and I'd be surprised if it were a big success.
I tie knots in string. I don't yet have access to this chisel technology you speak of.
Just wondering.
The part that always strikes me as weird about that arguement is that from the companies point of view, it doesn't matter if there's one person pirating the content, or if everyone's pirating it. Once a pirated copy at full quality and no DRM gets released, it will be duplicated until everyone who wants to steal a copy of the original will do so. So, if that's the case, DRM is only useful to the media companies if they can prevent ALL users from pirating the content.
And that's the problem. I find it hard to believe that any DRM will be able to prevent a single copy of the content in question from being released onto the internet. And once it's out, it's out. No amount of DRM or wishing will put it back in. The person who will be most inconvenienced will not be the high end pirate, who will find a way around the system, but the low grade pirate and the home user. It seems as though the media companies are going after the wrong target.
Just an observation.
Wow, that was just chock full of missing words and poor grammer wasn't it? Jeez, I've really got to proofread these things before I put them online.
I just finished reading Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town last night. (Good timing, eh?) Not only that, but I read the whole thing on a palm pilot for free with permission, which made me feel better than all the books I've read on the thing without permission. Anyway, it's pretty good, but I'd say Doctorow earlier works were stronger. The "unconventionalness" was sort of it never really seemed to get explained or justified. I guess that was probably the point, but I got to the end and felt like there was still more story that I missed out on. I guess I felt something similar at the ends of his previous novels as well, but they just seemed more self contained.
Anyway, check out Eastern Standard Tribe and his first novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Both of these are also available for free download from the above linked sites.
Yes, because running an operating system makes you a slave. A SLAVE!
Maybe they're going to push up the release date.
A boy can dream, can't he?
I assume that where you wrote 'glits' you meant to write 'bling'.
Ah, hell. That was funny! Damn you moderators. Damn you!
So you're saying that the schools should, in addition to music, archive warez iso, dvd rips of movies, dvd images and porn locally to reduce stress on the bandwidth? This is a great idea. I just don't know if Dell is going to be as excited about teaming up with the goatse guy to deliver local, hi-quality porn as they were to team up with Napster.
Maybe the goatse guy can partner with apple? They seem to have some unique market penetration these days.
But how is this related to the Ponzi Scheme?
I thought the moon appeared larger while on the horizon because suddenly the moon appears to be right next to objects whose size we can comprehend. In the middle of a night sky, the mooon is just a circle of light in a giant black space, on the horizon the moon is much much larger than buildings we know to be enormous. Even if against nothing more than the horizon, it still seems bigger because at least it's next to SOMETHING.
Those paypalsucks people have been very strident in the past. Just to a positive note out there, I've used paypal for years and have never had a single problem with them, both as a buyer and as a seller.
YMMV.
Brilliant! Just announce how you want to be modded and BLAM, there you go (mod me off-topic)!
Stay out of Greenwich's data, Lebowski! Stay out of Greenwich's data, deadbeat!
Stop the Phallocracy!
Yeah, it would work fine until somebody smashed your hand with a hammer. Cheating in casinos, especially in obvious ways that include technology with no purpose other than to cheat, or frowned upon and not recommended.
Have you ever played poker?
Have you ever watched poker on TV? Did you notice that the same few people seem to be at the final table a disproportional percentage of the time. It's because although the cards themselves are random, the game is not. Every bet and every action is a subtle piece of a conversation about your perceived strength of your own hand versus your perceived strengths of your opponents.
There's a lot of skill. It's not simply high card wins. The really good poker players willoften win without the best hands, because they know when their opponents are weak and will be willing to give up on a pot.
So, yeah, a poker bot could replicate this.
If you can think of a better way to produce corpses, I'd like to hear it.
Next thing we need is a fan made entirely of old computer cases!
Yeah, you're pretty much the only one.
Seriously, though, I much MUCH prefer the touchpad to the weird touchpoint things. I always found them basically unusable. I'm sure if I owned one I could configure it to be more functional, but they always seemed awkward and difficult to direct. In addition they were generally, and for reasons impossible to figure, located in the middle of the keyboard. Do I really need a mouse getting in the way when I'm trying to type? At least put the damned things out of the way.
Anyway, yeah, I hate those things. I'm glad they're fading away.
On the other other hand, I really like non-widescreen displays on laptops, and those seem to be fading away as well. Again, you can still find them, but only on a few models and not the ones you want. It's sad when you like a feature that's being phased out.
... then they threw the concrete in a sack and tossed the sack in a river and hurled the river into space.
That's a lousy example. Didn't he fight to promote DC because he held the patent on DC current and NOT on AC current? It had nothing to do with being a bad idea, it had to do with Edison wanting to cash in on his invention.