No matter what their credentials or rationale, it is wrong to use one's knowledge and the cover of academia to facilitate piracy and theft of digital property.
It is, however, incumbent on anybody with two neurons to bang together (no matter their credentials or rationale) to call an asshat an asshat.
SunnComm? You guys are asshats. Your engineers are asshats. Your marketroids? Asshats. Your customers? Asshats. Your stockholders? You know, those guys with the pitchforks and the torches outside the front door?
I use MSRP to compare prices on devices that shipped within the last week or so.
Can you get those particular devices for less on ebay? Maybe. Depends on how comfortable you are buying gray-market hardware. For price comparisons, MSRP is a good benchmark.
You really need to be careful who you call an "idiot" until you learn to capitalize, spell, and punctuate. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you could at least spell "nimrod" right.
The Zire 21 is B&W, and has NO BACKLIGHT. I don't think it's really in the same league, functionality wise, as the T600. Yes, it's far far cheaper, and (for somebody who is never in the dark) not a bad feature set, but it's not remotely comparable.
Dimensional shares EMusic's consumer focused philosophy of providing low cost, convenient access to great music.
Effective immediately, we are increasing prices and decreasing access to great music.
Dimensional plans to continue enhancing the EMusic service with new features and content and you can look forward to hearing more once the acquisition has been completed.
Trust us, we're going to give you a reacharound real soon now. In the mean time, you can upgrade to some nice lube for $9.99/month. Otherwise, please get used to the dry ass-raping.
I liked emusic's old deal. I don't like their new deal.
If I could in fact pay $.25 for one song, it would be relatively OK, but they want to lock me into monthlies.
How is this unreasonable? For me, $.99/track is too high. $.25/track is more reasonable, if I don't have to make a monthly commitment. First company to hit my price point gets my money. Nobody else does.
I'd argue that marijuana's effects are no better, or worse, than alcohol, which is pretty darn legal in most places.
I don't smoke (pot, tobacco, ANYTHING), and I wouldn't, simply because it's not my thing. Has nothing to do with law, it's a personal choice. Thing is, I think there SHOULDN'T BE a law against the stuff.
I have always assumed that the redness we see in pictures of Mars from the surface is due to airborne dust. Will this not tint the available light reddish, and cause objects to appear red? What is the photocalibrator calibrating? Are the cameras not, in fact, reporting an accurate (to the human eye) representation of the surroundings?
Thanks for your edification.
I don't pretend to understand optics. It's like electricity: Since I can't use a wrench to fix it, I'm happy to have it be somebody else's problem. : )
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear..." is no basis for a free, civil society.
In point of fact, I'm not really concerned with teh STATED purpose of this system. However, when it gets used to target marketing or otherwise-unrelated law enforcemnent activity, that is Really Not Okay.
MILITARY aircraft can exceed 1 g accelerations, but passenger aircraft? Not with a load of meat and cargo, they can't.
Anyhow, impact accelerations are on the order of tens or hundreds of g's, so any engineer with two brain cells to knock together would have already designed the mechanism to ignore "small" accelerations, and pay attention only to big hits.
Well, by my count, there are at least 1930 people who were around before you, so you're being disingenuous at best.
Incidentally, you might note that time in grade does not connote taste. Since there are many hundreds of replies on this story, you might conclude that there are other people whose opinion of the topic is much more positive than yours.
My favourite pens are the Rotring Trio series. Look here.
The Trio 600 Multipen is a machined hunk of brass and aluminum. It has a really impressive heft, and feels good in my hand. It's a big, heavy pen, but I like it a lot. One of the two inks can be replaced with a stylus point, and the pencil is a.7mm lead which I find is a bit more durable. (I write rough.)
The Quattro Executive is also a great pen. I carry mine with two colors of ink, and a stylus point, along with the.5mm pencil. I use the Fisher Space Pen refills in all my multipens, which I found here. The regular Quattro is not nearly as well made as the other pens. It's also very light and rattly. I don't care for it at all.
I once owned a Yafa trio pen that was similar in appearance to the Rotring 600, but it wasn't nearly as hefty, and it was rattly like the Quattro.
Yeah, the cosmonauts don't mind ingesting the graphite dust.
The Space Pen was developed on Fisher's dime because they percieved a need for it. NASA used them because they were the best available. I use them because they're readily available for my favourite multipens, and they write very well.
I've always thought of a couple as "an indiscriminate integer number between one and four, inclusive".
If I mean two, I'll say two. If I say "a couple" that means less than "a few", which is less than "some", which is less than "lots", which is less than "an imperial asston".
And I reserve the right to punch in the jaw anybody who argues with me about my fuzzy logic numbering system.
Come on. Anybody who tried to make one thin dime off of that source code would be SCOed in a matter of milliseconds, only this time it'd be pretty justifiable.
This is a major embarassment to Valve, and might well open them to litigation from Havok, but it's not going to mean that there are a bunch of HL2 clones running around out there.
In case you were curious, there's a term for that attitude. It's called "elitism".
Nobody's making you listen to music you don't like. More people are enjoying more freedom of their expression, as the costs for hardware are coming down. There is no bad here.
Good musicians, by definition, are those that pay attention to their craft. If more people are able to study and practice the craft, there will be more good musicians (and, by the way, good recording artists, which are not necessarily exactly the same thing). Please explain how this is not a Good Thing.
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It is, however, incumbent on anybody with two neurons to bang together (no matter their credentials or rationale) to call an asshat an asshat.
SunnComm? You guys are asshats. Your engineers are asshats. Your marketroids? Asshats. Your customers? Asshats. Your stockholders? You know, those guys with the pitchforks and the torches outside the front door?
Yeah. They're asshats too.
Have a nice day.
I use MSRP to compare prices on devices that shipped within the last week or so.
Can you get those particular devices for less on ebay? Maybe. Depends on how comfortable you are buying gray-market hardware. For price comparisons, MSRP is a good benchmark.
You really need to be careful who you call an "idiot" until you learn to capitalize, spell, and punctuate. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you could at least spell "nimrod" right.
The Zire 21 is B&W, and has NO BACKLIGHT. I don't think it's really in the same league, functionality wise, as the T600. Yes, it's far far cheaper, and (for somebody who is never in the dark) not a bad feature set, but it's not remotely comparable.
Wow. You get a cookie, Captain Obvious. Yes, the MSRP for the Tungsten E is one whole dollar less than $200.
Please give me a link to a Handspring model with PalmOS 5, other than the Treo 600.
Yeah. You can't.
Now show me a link to a color PalmOS 5 device for less than $200. Mmmmmkay.
Look, if you don't like the device, don't buy it. Simple.
Go put a $20 in a stamp machine, and buy a stamp. Bring a wheelbarrow.
I liked emusic's old deal. I don't like their new deal.
If I could in fact pay $.25 for one song, it would be relatively OK, but they want to lock me into monthlies.
How is this unreasonable? For me, $.99/track is too high. $.25/track is more reasonable, if I don't have to make a monthly commitment. First company to hit my price point gets my money. Nobody else does.
I'd argue that marijuana's effects are no better, or worse, than alcohol, which is pretty darn legal in most places.
I don't smoke (pot, tobacco, ANYTHING), and I wouldn't, simply because it's not my thing. Has nothing to do with law, it's a personal choice. Thing is, I think there SHOULDN'T BE a law against the stuff.
I'm a little confused by this.
I have always assumed that the redness we see in pictures of Mars from the surface is due to airborne dust. Will this not tint the available light reddish, and cause objects to appear red? What is the photocalibrator calibrating? Are the cameras not, in fact, reporting an accurate (to the human eye) representation of the surroundings?
Thanks for your edification.
I don't pretend to understand optics. It's like electricity: Since I can't use a wrench to fix it, I'm happy to have it be somebody else's problem. : )
You're almost right. I think the grocery store don't-scam-me cards should be illegal too.
But that's just me.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear..." is no basis for a free, civil society.
In point of fact, I'm not really concerned with teh STATED purpose of this system. However, when it gets used to target marketing or otherwise-unrelated law enforcemnent activity, that is Really Not Okay.
Because I love Homestar Runner more than I hate flash ads. That's why it's a bad thing.
MILITARY aircraft can exceed 1 g accelerations, but passenger aircraft? Not with a load of meat and cargo, they can't.
Anyhow, impact accelerations are on the order of tens or hundreds of g's, so any engineer with two brain cells to knock together would have already designed the mechanism to ignore "small" accelerations, and pay attention only to big hits.
Because, since it's a LAPtop, that would mean that your crotch is on fire.
No thanks.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who cursed Roberta Williams' "game design by frustration".
///hated/// those games.
God, I
You sure can get a lot of money, if you don't feel you have to keep your integrity. Welcome to the jungle.
Well, by my count, there are at least 1930 people who were around before you, so you're being disingenuous at best.
Incidentally, you might note that time in grade does not connote taste. Since there are many hundreds of replies on this story, you might conclude that there are other people whose opinion of the topic is much more positive than yours.
So don't be a dick.
My favourite pens are the Rotring Trio series. Look here.
.7mm lead which I find is a bit more durable. (I write rough.)
.5mm pencil. I use the Fisher Space Pen refills in all my multipens, which I found here.
The Trio 600 Multipen is a machined hunk of brass and aluminum. It has a really impressive heft, and feels good in my hand. It's a big, heavy pen, but I like it a lot. One of the two inks can be replaced with a stylus point, and the pencil is a
The Quattro Executive is also a great pen. I carry mine with two colors of ink, and a stylus point, along with the
The regular Quattro is not nearly as well made as the other pens. It's also very light and rattly. I don't care for it at all.
I once owned a Yafa trio pen that was similar in appearance to the Rotring 600, but it wasn't nearly as hefty, and it was rattly like the Quattro.
Yeah, the cosmonauts don't mind ingesting the graphite dust.
The Space Pen was developed on Fisher's dime because they percieved a need for it. NASA used them because they were the best available. I use them because they're readily available for my favourite multipens, and they write very well.
Sounds like millions of dollars well-spent to me.
I've always thought of a couple as "an indiscriminate integer number between one and four, inclusive".
If I mean two, I'll say two. If I say "a couple" that means less than "a few", which is less than "some", which is less than "lots", which is less than "an imperial asston".
And I reserve the right to punch in the jaw anybody who argues with me about my fuzzy logic numbering system.
See, the lazy people already have their own language, they don't want to learn OURS.
Imprecision is the mother of all imprecise...things.
Come on. Anybody who tried to make one thin dime off of that source code would be SCOed in a matter of milliseconds, only this time it'd be pretty justifiable.
This is a major embarassment to Valve, and might well open them to litigation from Havok, but it's not going to mean that there are a bunch of HL2 clones running around out there.
I always loved the Newton, but I didn't have pockets big enough to put it in. : )
In case you were curious, there's a term for that attitude. It's called "elitism".
Nobody's making you listen to music you don't like. More people are enjoying more freedom of their expression, as the costs for hardware are coming down. There is no bad here.
Good musicians, by definition, are those that pay attention to their craft. If more people are able to study and practice the craft, there will be more good musicians (and, by the way, good recording artists, which are not necessarily exactly the same thing). Please explain how this is not a Good Thing.