Call me stupid but I was kind of hoping they would pass legislation and attempt to arrest a 100,000 people--flooding their legal system with 'guilty' file sharers and stealing valuable time from police officers who should be focusing on real threats to society.
Every time the entertainment industry comes up with another idea designed to force the money-spigot wide open, it reeks of the desperation of a junky trying to get one last hit.
These bastards have sat on their asses for over fifty years, reaming artists and raping customers and enjoying tons of cash.
Those days are over, but the junkies can't conceive of a world in which they don't get their easy fix.
"The Intel's i486SX was a modified Intel 486DX microprocessor with its floating-point unit (FPU) disconnected. All early 486SX chips were actually i486DX chips with a defective FPU. If testing showed that the central processing unit was working but the FPU was defective, the FPU's power and bus connections were destroyed with a laser and the chip was sold cheaper as an SX; if the FPU worked it was sold as a DX. Computer Manufacturers that used these processors include Packard Bell and Compaq."
A problem has been detected and Windows has shut down to prevent damage to your cart
The problem seems to be caused by the following file:
BUYMORENOW.SYS
AISLE_FAULT_IN_NONTRAFFICKED_AISLE
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If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed items from your cart. If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable items, restart your cart, grasp the handle with both hands while pressing lightly with your foot on the right-rear wheel to select Advanced Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.
They suggest that chips be developed in a manner that allows users to pay only for the computing power they need rather than the peak computing power that is physically present.
Third, they should charge reasonable prices for downloads of music...
These people are like crack addicts. They are so accustomed to the $12-20 CD that they can't conceive of the windfall they would enjoy if they were to switch to a $2-5 CD. I personally would probably buy 5 CDs a week at those prices.
Why would I want to go through all the hassle of downloads (I don't) if I could just buy CDs for a fair price?
I don't have the exact link, but I remember hearing a story about a street performer who found that he could make a decent living by playing for tips and selling CDs of his music at $5 each.
...everyone's scrambling to get away from HDDVD discs!
I built an HTPC with a mini-ITX motherboard. I am in the process of ripping every DVD I can get my hands on to a 500G disk so I can use mplayer to play movies on demand.
When I can rip BD/HD DVD with as much ease, then I'll be interested in HD.
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That's fine, but what if you live in a first world country and have flies on your face? What then?
Move to where the food is!!!
It's sort of like an operating system or something, right?
Call me stupid but I was kind of hoping they would pass legislation and attempt to arrest a 100,000 people--flooding their legal system with 'guilty' file sharers and stealing valuable time from police officers who should be focusing on real threats to society.
See, "Drug War"
I forgot one...
ctl-r - search back in the history for a pattern in a previous command.
ctl-a: Move to beginning of command line
ctl-e: Move to end of command line
ctl-u: Wipe command line from cursor position to beginning
There are more, but these are the ones I can remember because they're the ones I use the most.
Hello?
Every time the entertainment industry comes up with another idea designed to force the money-spigot wide open, it reeks of the desperation of a junky trying to get one last hit.
These bastards have sat on their asses for over fifty years, reaming artists and raping customers and enjoying tons of cash.
Those days are over, but the junkies can't conceive of a world in which they don't get their easy fix.
It's repugnant.
Natalie Wood would be happy.
I can so see the MPAA and RIAA getting behind this one.
...sending an amount of data that would cost $1 from your ISP would cost over $61 million if you were to send it over SMS.
Think how poor you'd be if you were sending the message while driving a car running on printer ink.
Hey, I got an idea. Try selling the pixels of your web page at like 10 for a dollar to people so they can put their own tiny banner ads in them.
That's okay, you don't need to thank me.
Ah, you're so right. I'd completely forgotten about that epoch. :)
And let us not forget the timeless:
"I for one, welcome our meat overlords from the internet"
"Hello, internet? I'd like some meat, please."
"Just send it right over. Thanks, bye"
Do they speak English in Iarge?
This is how it starts. First it's embryos, then they're in larging people.
"For comparison, the second-biggest murder case in Sweden required only 1,500 pages."
The biggest murder case in Sweden had to use BitTorrent to move the documents.
Okay, well, I had to go look it up:
Wikipedia
Cheers!
You must not buy a lot of produce. I love avocados, but the nastiest of them are there right beside the good ones.
Either that, or you tip well.
When I first read this, I thought I saw:
"Microsoft will Steam Ads to Shopping Carts"
WoooWooo!
I'm not a subscriber. Maybe I'll disable AdBlock...
They suggest that chips be developed in a manner that allows users to pay only for the computing power they need rather than the peak computing power that is physically present.
This is known as a 486SX.
Third, they should charge reasonable prices for downloads of music...
These people are like crack addicts. They are so accustomed to the $12-20 CD that they can't conceive of the windfall they would enjoy if they were to switch to a $2-5 CD. I personally would probably buy 5 CDs a week at those prices.
Why would I want to go through all the hassle of downloads (I don't) if I could just buy CDs for a fair price?
I don't have the exact link, but I remember hearing a story about a street performer who found that he could make a decent living by playing for tips and selling CDs of his music at $5 each.
Three - Car locks, home locks, e-mail accounts, and computer firewalls are not designed to lock out the owner
When you buy DRM, you are buying a lock designed to prevent you from legitimately using your own possessions.
...everyone's scrambling to get away from HDDVD discs!
I built an HTPC with a mini-ITX motherboard. I am in the process of ripping every DVD I can get my hands on to a 500G disk so I can use mplayer to play movies on demand.
When I can rip BD/HD DVD with as much ease, then I'll be interested in HD.