I recently decided to upgrade one of my PCs and settled on a dual CPU. The motherboard and CPUs are all available for commodity prices and thus give far more value for the dollar than a 2+gig single CPU.
And whats to stop these people from selling G4-equivalent machines with Linux pre-installed, and oh yeah it runs MacOS too While OS9 and previous required very specific boot roms, OSX does not. Of course, that doesn't stop OSX2 from requiring them again.
MacOS of course has no protections against copying and Apple has turned a blind eye to blatent pirating of the OS (but not the hardware) for years.
The only reason I buy HBO is for the series shows (Sopranos, Oz, etc)... the reason I canceled Showtime when they lost Stargate was because of no series that interested me. I'd be sure to resubscribe if Farscape moved there.
I really wish more serial shows would move to commercial free tv, I'd be happy to pay for it.
We've known this was going to be SG1's last season for two years... They've been chanting "no more than six years" for several years. The only real question was if the fifth season would be the last instead.
Would there be this uproar if it was a board of directors forcing the use of Open Source software within a company? I'd guess not, because I know of a few who do.
If a law is in place, put there either by referendum or legislative action, then its the same basic thing. In addition, businesses generally exist on a make-profit-now approach, whereas public money as spent by the gov't should be handed by a whats-the-best-long-term approach.
I have never burned a single CD of music I have downloaded. In fact, every piece of music that I've downloaded and since kept have been added to my list of CDs to purchase. As many of these have been out of print for awhile and of limited quantity to begin with, that can sometimes take time. I am, however, on a complete RIAA boycott and while my CD purchases have gone up over a hundred fold in the last two years, none of it has been published by a member of RIAA.
I suspect that my actions more represent the majority than your "everybody and their dog" comment. Neither, of course, are very accurate.
The law has ALREADY been passed. If they pass another one, it'll just get thrown out if it conflicts with one that has already been passed.
You obviously do not understand the US legal system. In short: Later laws take precidence. Laws are only thrown out when they conflict with a higher power. Fed is higher than State. Constitution is higher than Fed.
Thus, if a law gets passed that says "It is legal to copy and distribute CDs" then it is in fact, legal.
like Censorship, but are often caught in situations that make them oppose themselves when it suits them (for example, the story about an ISP banning the RIAA ips, which is blatant censoring
Don't tell me you're incapable of seeing the difference between gov't censorship (aka anything where men with guns will come tell you to stop) and a business entity in a free market deciding to operate in a specific manner?
If you can't, well you're hopeless really, a lost cause as it were. If you can then your comment really makes no sense whatsoever.
Lots of people I know only own a cellphone, and don't bother getting a POTS line at all. In areas with cable broadband there's really no reason. Modern cellphone plans have insane numbers of free local minutes and mostly 'local' refers to a larger area than the landlines - for instance my cell is local to San Jose from SF, but a landline call would be long distance.
I have a POTS now, but its mostly for my DSL to run over. When I move I'll either get Cable or a DSL provider that doesn't require a landline. Here's hoping Pacbell goes bankrupt.
In the long run, the rights holders may work out a tamper-proof closed distribution system (eg: distribute closed-box hardware free or at low end-user cost)
That hasn't worked so well for DirecTV. Eventually maybe, and certainly with periods of hack-free as they changed cards, but not currently and not for any real significant time yet. When people find the security problems with these "tamper proof" boxes, it would pretty much end the game.
Any company providing routing has the right to not route other peoples packets. Generally they do, as thats what their customers pay for, but for specific issues (attackers, spammers, RIAA, etc) then the benefits outway the negatives, in a business manner.
If your packets cost more than they would lose by not routing you, you will not get routed. This is simple economics.
18 months ago, I got laid off from a job I enjoyed. Just over a year later, I got another job which I've enjoyed. Sure, the unemployment time was bad, and significantly detrimental to my savings, but there I still don't see any job in another field I'd enjoy as much.... much less one flipping crepes or hotdogs on a push cart vendor.
Nope. The XBOX can't reap the benefits of an integrated low-chip system. Nor does it see any benefit for being manufactured by the producer. Both the PS and Gameboy do, on both counts.
The XBOX will see lower prices due to bulk discounts on the base parts, but nothing even near the benefits its competitors see. Prices of all will go down, the PS/Gameboy as manufacturing costs less, and the XBOX to compete. Thus, the XBOX will always cost more to produce than they earn selling. In fact, the discrepancy is likely to get -worse- with time, not better.
That's odd, the Alberton's around here (California) made a big deal about getting rid of the Luckys cards when they bought them. Their in-store advertising still presents them as superior to Safeway due to the lack of a card.
Certain manufacturers, and the MPAA that they suck up to do not want VCD/SVCD capability. Others, will continue making what customers want, and as the nonbleeding edge customers become educated they will want things like this more.
To get a list of all packages: dpkg --get-selections To get a list of all files owned by the package manager: dpkg -S \* To find files on the system not owned by the package manager: apt-get cruft ; cruft
He told you in the message you replied to. Playing backups. You have a right to backup anything you buy, be it games, books, videos, etc. Doing anything to get that backup to function should be legal (the DMCA makes certain things not legal, but this is Canada)
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I recently decided to upgrade one of my PCs and settled on a dual CPU. The motherboard and CPUs are all available for commodity prices and thus give far more value for the dollar than a 2+gig single CPU.
And whats to stop these people from selling G4-equivalent machines with Linux pre-installed, and oh yeah it runs MacOS too While OS9 and previous required very specific boot roms, OSX does not. Of course, that doesn't stop OSX2 from requiring them again.
MacOS of course has no protections against copying and Apple has turned a blind eye to blatent pirating of the OS (but not the hardware) for years.
The only reason I buy HBO is for the series shows (Sopranos, Oz, etc) ... the reason I canceled Showtime when they lost Stargate was because of no series that interested me. I'd be sure to resubscribe if Farscape moved there.
I really wish more serial shows would move to commercial free tv, I'd be happy to pay for it.
You forgot one point:
Each successful drug must pay the R&D cost for 10 unsuccessful drugs.
Starship troopers ... based on the title of a book written by Robert Heinlein.
We've known this was going to be SG1's last season for two years ... They've been chanting "no more than six years" for several years. The only real question was if the fifth season would be the last instead.
Would there be this uproar if it was a board of directors forcing the use of Open Source software within a company? I'd guess not, because I know of a few who do.
If a law is in place, put there either by referendum or legislative action, then its the same basic thing. In addition, businesses generally exist on a make-profit-now approach, whereas public money as spent by the gov't should be handed by a whats-the-best-long-term approach.
If you're not quoting in Canadian play money, then you need to check out pricewatch.com
Pioneer DVD-R/RW for $264 (58% of your quoted price) and DVD-R media as low as 75 cents in quantity.
Wrong.
I have never burned a single CD of music I have downloaded. In fact, every piece of music that I've downloaded and since kept have been added to my list of CDs to purchase. As many of these have been out of print for awhile and of limited quantity to begin with, that can sometimes take time. I am, however, on a complete RIAA boycott and while my CD purchases have gone up over a hundred fold in the last two years, none of it has been published by a member of RIAA.
I suspect that my actions more represent the majority than your "everybody and their dog" comment. Neither, of course, are very accurate.
The law has ALREADY been passed. If they pass another one, it'll just get thrown out if it conflicts with one that has already been passed.
You obviously do not understand the US legal system. In short: Later laws take precidence. Laws are only thrown out when they conflict with a higher power. Fed is higher than State. Constitution is higher than Fed.
Thus, if a law gets passed that says "It is legal to copy and distribute CDs" then it is in fact, legal.
like Censorship, but are often caught in situations that make them oppose themselves when it suits them (for example, the story about an ISP banning the RIAA ips, which is blatant censoring
Don't tell me you're incapable of seeing the difference between gov't censorship (aka anything where men with guns will come tell you to stop) and a business entity in a free market deciding to operate in a specific manner?
If you can't, well you're hopeless really, a lost cause as it were. If you can then your comment really makes no sense whatsoever.
Lots of people I know only own a cellphone, and don't bother getting a POTS line at all. In areas with cable broadband there's really no reason. Modern cellphone plans have insane numbers of free local minutes and mostly 'local' refers to a larger area than the landlines - for instance my cell is local to San Jose from SF, but a landline call would be long distance.
I have a POTS now, but its mostly for my DSL to run over. When I move I'll either get Cable or a DSL provider that doesn't require a landline. Here's hoping Pacbell goes bankrupt.
In the long run, the rights holders may work out a tamper-proof closed distribution system (eg: distribute closed-box hardware free or at low end-user cost)
That hasn't worked so well for DirecTV. Eventually maybe, and certainly with periods of hack-free as they changed cards, but not currently and not for any real significant time yet. When people find the security problems with these "tamper proof" boxes, it would pretty much end the game.
you have to seriously consider eliminating humans
It's been considered, but they taste so good!
Of course, if they tried to track everybody via MAC addresses, you'd have to do a little creative kung-fu
PPP and PPPoE would entirely defeat this, as would any aggregate NATting.
You're free to choose another ISP that routes all such material for you. After all, it is a free market.
Any company providing routing has the right to not route other peoples packets. Generally they do, as thats what their customers pay for, but for specific issues (attackers, spammers, RIAA, etc) then the benefits outway the negatives, in a business manner.
If your packets cost more than they would lose by not routing you, you will not get routed. This is simple economics.
More memory (16 megs is pathetic) and an ogg player. Even if it had that, I'd wait for the color version.
18 months ago, I got laid off from a job I enjoyed. Just over a year later, I got another job which I've enjoyed. Sure, the unemployment time was bad, and significantly detrimental to my savings, but there I still don't see any job in another field I'd enjoy as much .... much less one flipping crepes or hotdogs on a push cart vendor.
Nope. The XBOX can't reap the benefits of an integrated low-chip system. Nor does it see any benefit for being manufactured by the producer. Both the PS and Gameboy do, on both counts.
The XBOX will see lower prices due to bulk discounts on the base parts, but nothing even near the benefits its competitors see. Prices of all will go down, the PS/Gameboy as manufacturing costs less, and the XBOX to compete. Thus, the XBOX will always cost more to produce than they earn selling. In fact, the discrepancy is likely to get -worse- with time, not better.
That's odd, the Alberton's around here (California) made a big deal about getting rid of the Luckys cards when they bought them. Their in-store advertising still presents them as superior to Safeway due to the lack of a card.
It is a mistake to consider the ignorance of the average consumer equivalent to not caring about security. Some people really don't know.
Never.
Certain manufacturers, and the MPAA that they suck up to do not want VCD/SVCD capability. Others, will continue making what customers want, and as the nonbleeding edge customers become educated they will want things like this more.
Depends on what you're looking for.
To get a list of all packages: dpkg --get-selections
To get a list of all files owned by the package manager: dpkg -S \*
To find files on the system not owned by the package manager: apt-get cruft ; cruft
is there any legit use for a mod chip?
He told you in the message you replied to. Playing backups. You have a right to backup anything you buy, be it games, books, videos, etc. Doing anything to get that backup to function should be legal (the DMCA makes certain things not legal, but this is Canada)