Better keep checking the credit card statements for the next few months to make sure it really is cancelled. I am not just being paranoid either as they kept charging me for several months after I cancelled. Of course this was 12 years ago but according to the lawsuit, they still operate under the same shady business practices, or at least did until this lawsuit came up.
So what you are basically saying is that the DRM that Apple currently uses or DRM in general is acceptable to you as long as you can remove it to suit your needs. It seems to me, you do not like the implementation of DRM itself but only the fact that currently, it can be removed. Big difference.
The only information I have on this guy or what he was doing is from what I read on your link. Obviously you will not get both sides of the story from that ONE web site. That ONE web site is obviously biased towards Marc Emery.
On that note.. Any country can seek extradition of a person. The country that agrees to extradite the person obviously makes the decision to allow it based on some amount and type of evidence that something illegal was happening. It sounds like you should be complaining about the country that may allow the extradition to happen if you feel that Maarc Emory was not doing anything illegal. I do not think anyone could determine if he was or not based on your link. I am sure your home country officials had more information available to them then you linked for us..
Your post does hype up the situation though and will proably catch a few unaware people, as do most stories that only make readers/listeners aware of one persons side. I believe the average person can make a logical and educated decision about any topic or debate when presented with all angles. Problem though is most people do not seek all angles or all of the angles are not immediately available to the general public and many people exploit that to try to sway opinions.
Your experiences with SOCOM2 are par for the course.
No, that is not the case. There is NO WAY thousands of people would be playing this game for over 2 years if getting booted every 10 minutes was the norm. If your experiences are the same as I described, you may you have crappy equipment as well. Quote from my original post. "I'd like to blame the PS2 but I only have those problems with the AT&T device." With my Smoothwall router, I can play online with the PS2 (SOCOM and others) for hours and I *might* get booted once. Not so with the referenced AT&T equipment.
There are many non "hit" listeners. I happen to enjoy every track of the selections I purchase. Although I make my own mix cds for convienence, the song selections I choose for each disc are not designated songs that I feel stand above the others. My kids on the other hand are as you describe. They take it a step further and have a queue of about 40 songs that come and go through some type LRU replacement policy.
The peak torque of the Alfa Romeo is probably about 190 ft/lbs at something above 4500 rpm's. That type of engine would be useless in something larger like a minivan or SUV. Putting 7 people in that minivan an it would be markedly worse. There is far more then the well marketed "peak HP" numbers the auto makers throw out there. My mom has an old Winnebago motorhome with a mopar 318cu in engine. I do not know the exact figures but I believe that engine is rated just under 200 HP but yet it pulls that motorhome and an attached car in tow. Granted it only gets about 6MPG at times but it goes fine and has been for the last 50K miles. Try that with your 204HP 2.0 and let us know how it goes.
Nuclear reactors are on many Navy bases (subs and ships). No public outcry or concern. If you try to build a nuclear power plant in those same areas, everyone would complain.
People are afraid of the unknown. I used to work as a nuclear operator. They can build a plant in my current area and I would not complain. I'm sure the plant owners would give out Potassium Iodide to the home owners in the area just it was needed. If your kidneys are healthy, you'll be fine.;)
You are tired of hearing this because you seem to be the exception, not the average family.
My take. I drove about 125K miles and many long trips including 4 coast to coast with a wife and two kids in a 1991 Mustang. Quite a few of those trips had everything we needed for at least two weeks and one was for over a month.
Not a complete list and some of the above may be a little dated but you can get an idea of the additional features that hackers have been able to squeeze into these devices.
I can not speak for every device but I've personally used 4 different home routers that were boderline junk. A Siemens, an AT&T, Netgear and a SMC. Each has various locking and dropping issues and lack of various features I wanted. A perfect example is the AT&T router playing SOCOM2 for the PS2. Even with the correct ports forwarded (which you should not have to do anyway), 50% of the time, the headset does not communicate. Another immediate show stopper is I get knocked out of games about every 10 minutes. The thing is a POS. I actually still use the device but only as an access point to my network for my laptop. The PS2 wired on it blows. I even tried just using the device as nothing more then a 4 port switch with the PS2 and I still got kicked off the game servers. I'd like to blame the PS2 but I only have those problems with the AT&T device. After experiencing various issues like that (not all PS2 related either), I finally built my own router using an old PC and a Smoothwall iso so I am out of the market for a home router device now. It would be nice to have a device that had more frequent firmware updates based on feedback from other hackers and users. Based on my experience, I can see why people would feel more comfortable with a hackable device as well.
DCA and nearby IAD (Dulles International) are run by MWAA (Washington Municipal Airports Authority). One of their commitments to the airport customers and maintained through their contracts with the vendors renting airport space, is to maintain the same prices as the same vendors charge off airport property. Meaning, the TGIF at Dulles has to charge its customers roughly the same as any other TGIF in the Washington DC area. No gouging allowed. Some of the vendors actually place some type of disclaimer on the receipt stating something like "Look, you paid the same price here as our Herndon VA location".
I worked at both aiports for a few years so I ate at the onsite resturants a lot.
Does anyone wonder why Open Source and Linux in general have a bad rep?
I don't. OSS only gets a bad rep from the closed source companies in direct competition and the ones that tried and failed to make money from it or those that can not find a way to make money from it. That is not a reflection of the open source software itself.
The common model of making money with open source is to sell you a support contract.
Open source software is here and will always be here. Those that desire to try to make a profit from it does not change that. If they fail to make a profit, it is not because of the open source software caused the failure. The open source software will be around before, during, and after any of those companies come and go.
In conclusion, OSS is not broken at all like you claim. Some of the business methods and plans to make money from it are. This is not unique, MANY closed source companies have and continue to go out of business for the same exact reasons.
The purpose of filing for a patent is to give you legel credit for creating the idea. You have to start the process somewhere and someone has to valididate that your idea is truely unique somewhere.
Are you implying someone specific in this case got burned by waiting to make the idea official? How do you know the other party did not start working on this idea 5 or 15 years ago?
The question of legitimacy of sequels is exactly why Duke Nukem forever has not been released yet. All you people complaining and trash talking sequels are ruining it for those of us still waiting. Thanks for nothing you damn role playing game basement living low lag time no social life self auto-erotic hippies.
I have noticed the same thing. Even more so when you search for very specific model numbers like a "LG L1780U" which is a 17 LCD monitor. One thing that works for some searches is add review -prices to the search like ATI 9800 review -prices. Not perfect but eliminates some of the finley tuned crap sites. You could take it a step further and use ATI 9800 -"compare prices" -shopping -deals review. A PITA but it does narrow it down.
I got a LJ4+ when I left my previous job as a going away present. It had a relatively new toner already installed. I've printed about 6000 sheets so far with it and I've only had to pay for the paper.
Big picture though. Paying an extra $100 each for a warranty on 20 PC's is $2000. You could buy 3 spare PC's for that amount. In reality, most business PC warranties start at about $200 per pc for 3 years. Considering you can get a bare bones desktop system for about $500-600, you could buy 6 spare PC's for the 20 you need as hot spares and forget the extended warrenty and have less downtime with a broken PC waiting for repair. Even better would be to buy 2 spares and budget the rest of the money for anything that may break.
The base 1 year warranty would still apply. Of course a lot of small businesses only have a secretary/PC person/materials person so it really depends on the ability of that person. If that person sucks at computers, you could cheat the system and buy 5 extended warranties and use those serial numbers when any of them break;)
Getting off topic here but people are always giving away to much information to fast. I was rear ended in traffic one time. The guy got out of his car and started complaining that I cut in front of him and slammed on my brakes. I said absolutely nothing until the police arrived. He ran up to the cop, told him the same thing but with more details. A few minutes later the cop came to me and asked what happened. I stated that immediatley after merging onto the highway, the traffic in front of me stopped dead. I hit my brakes to prevent hitting the car in front of me and then tapped my brakes repeatedly as he approached so he would see my brake lights and stop as well. The cop asked him if he saw my brake lights flashing and he said, "ahhh, no, when I looked, he was at a dead stop." He got a ticket. What I said was 100% true but if I had disclosed all the facts to the other driver before the police took our statements, he would have had time to try to make up a better defense and could have tailored his story. I know, a long and drawn out story but along the same lines of your suggestion to keep it quiet until you really need to speak.
I can change tapes in my Panasonic DV-15 camera and only miss about 20 seconds. You do not have to wait until the tape runs out to start a new one either. Once you get to the 50 minute point, jump at the chance when the lecturer is swapping slides or reaches for the glass of water. If you are only taping lectures and only need two hours, buy a $199 analog camera and record on EP speed. I know it sounds odd but try it first. I have been converting my old 8mm tapes to digital with my Radeon AIW. When all is said and done and I have the final product on a DVD and watching it on a television, there is almost no difference in video quality between the converted 8mm tapes and the video shot directly with my DV camera. Maybe my old ass Sony 8Mm was really good or my DV camera sucks. Either way...
Or, maybe I could just steal the stuff instead of pirate it then.
The criminal penalty is much less for actual physical theft from a store then it is for a copyright violation. The added benefit of physical theft is actually being able to register the software and get updates.
About drivers.. Many people are already familiar with Windows. Not that is any easier then Linux but being familiar makes it easy. Keep in mind, there are people familiar with Linux as well.
An example from today.
New XP machine and a new HP9050 printer on the network with an IP of 192.168.0.100.
Start --> Printers and Faxes. Select add new printer. I select next at the Add printer wizard box. I am given the option of "Local printer attached to this computer" or Network Printer. I select Netowrk Printer. "What printer do you want to connect to?" I try all three options with the printer ip address. None of them work. I go back and select "Local printer attached to this computer". Odd, it's not attached to my computer, it's on the network but I'll try it anyway. I select next and a box pops up and says No PNP printer found, press next to continue. I guess the box "Automatically detect and install my PNP printer" was checked by default. I browse through the list of available ports and do not see my network printer. I choose the other option called "Create a new Port". Standard TCP/IP Printer port is my best guess. When trying to create the port I recieve an error saying the port could not be created and i needed administrative rights to do that. I log off and log in as local administrator. I get back to that point and create the port with the printers IP address. I immediately get a prompt telling me to indentify what type of device I am trying to connect to and given a list of devices. I had the printer turned off so i turned it on and tried again. Ah, it determined it is a HP Jetdirect card now and Windows is asking me what type of printer am I trying to install. I am presented with a list of drivers I'd like to use. I browse through the HP printers and do not see the LJ 9050 listed. I cancel the process and hit HP's web site. After some searching around I see 2 drivers that look good for XP, a PCL5e and PCL6, I assume I do not need the 9050 printer system which is over 50MB in size. I browse the readme files and I have no idea which one I need or which is better. I decide to get the PCL5e because it only 5.8MB. I download and run the install. I am presented with two options. Automatically install the drivers and delete the temp files on completion or if I'd just like to expand the files into a specific directory. I take the default to perform the install automatically. That process completed. Well, what was that? I see no printers installed and now I have no idea what just happened or what was supposed to happen. For a forth time, I go back into "Add Printer". I selected Local Printer and add port again, type my ip address in and this time recieve an error that the port is already installed on my system. Oh, I canceled out of the add printer wizard earlier when I realized I need drivers but the wizard did at least create my port. I am now presented with a same dialog box asking to pick my printer model. I still see no HP 9050 printer listed under the HP printers list. I tried to browse the HD for the driver but not only do I not know what I am looking for, I do not know where to look. I will run the HP9050 PCL5E driver file again. This time I select to just expand the file into the c:\hplj9050 directory. For about the fifth time. I go back to "add printer", select my previosuly configured port, and this time select have disk and point to that directory on c:\. Finally, it shows my printer and installs the driver. I can now print to my 9050!!!
Okay, in all honesty, I do this all day every day and it would really only take me about 3 minutes to get this installed but did you see those steps? Those are real steps and a realistic process of what a non computer geek would have to go through to get this printer installed. For someone NOT already familiar with Windows XP, this is by no means easy. It seems easy to you and others because you take it for granted because you have been using and messing with the OS for years. For someone who has not been, the process would be no easier then installing the same printer on a Linux system.
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Better keep checking the credit card statements for the next few months to make sure it really is cancelled. I am not just being paranoid either as they kept charging me for several months after I cancelled. Of course this was 12 years ago but according to the lawsuit, they still operate under the same shady business practices, or at least did until this lawsuit came up.
So what you are basically saying is that the DRM that Apple currently uses or DRM in general is acceptable to you as long as you can remove it to suit your needs. It seems to me, you do not like the implementation of DRM itself but only the fact that currently, it can be removed. Big difference.
People are hacking on the Mattel Juice Box and home routers as well, your opinion of not "minor league" must be set very low.
I just don't like the mental image of eating something that's not really what it purports to be.
Imitation crab meat seems to be doing well.
The only information I have on this guy or what he was doing is from what I read on your link. Obviously you will not get both sides of the story from that ONE web site. That ONE web site is obviously biased towards Marc Emery.
On that note..
Any country can seek extradition of a person. The country that agrees to extradite the person obviously makes the decision to allow it based on some amount and type of evidence that something illegal was happening. It sounds like you should be complaining about the country that may allow the extradition to happen if you feel that Maarc Emory was not doing anything illegal. I do not think anyone could determine if he was or not based on your link. I am sure your home country officials had more information available to them then you linked for us..
Your post does hype up the situation though and will proably catch a few unaware people, as do most stories that only make readers/listeners aware of one persons side. I believe the average person can make a logical and educated decision about any topic or debate when presented with all angles. Problem though is most people do not seek all angles or all of the angles are not immediately available to the general public and many people exploit that to try to sway opinions.
Your experiences with SOCOM2 are par for the course.
No, that is not the case. There is NO WAY thousands of people would be playing this game for over 2 years if getting booted every 10 minutes was the norm. If your experiences are the same as I described, you may you have crappy equipment as well. Quote from my original post. "I'd like to blame the PS2 but I only have those problems with the AT&T device."
With my Smoothwall router, I can play online with the PS2 (SOCOM and others) for hours and I *might* get booted once. Not so with the referenced AT&T equipment.
There are many non "hit" listeners. I happen to enjoy every track of the selections I purchase. Although I make my own mix cds for convienence, the song selections I choose for each disc are not designated songs that I feel stand above the others. My kids on the other hand are as you describe. They take it a step further and have a queue of about 40 songs that come and go through some type LRU replacement policy.
The peak torque of the Alfa Romeo is probably about 190 ft/lbs at something above 4500 rpm's. That type of engine would be useless in something larger like a minivan or SUV. Putting 7 people in that minivan an it would be markedly worse.
There is far more then the well marketed "peak HP" numbers the auto makers throw out there. My mom has an old Winnebago motorhome with a mopar 318cu in engine. I do not know the exact figures but I believe that engine is rated just under 200 HP but yet it pulls that motorhome and an attached car in tow. Granted it only gets about 6MPG at times but it goes fine and has been for the last 50K miles.
Try that with your 204HP 2.0 and let us know how it goes.
Nuclear reactors are on many Navy bases (subs and ships). No public outcry or concern. If you try to build a nuclear power plant in those same areas, everyone would complain.
;)
People are afraid of the unknown. I used to work as a nuclear operator. They can build a plant in my current area and I would not complain.
I'm sure the plant owners would give out Potassium Iodide to the home owners in the area just it was needed. If your kidneys are healthy, you'll be fine.
My family has 7 people in it.
You are tired of hearing this because you seem to be the exception, not the average family.
My take.
I drove about 125K miles and many long trips including 4 coast to coast with a wife and two kids in a 1991 Mustang. Quite a few of those trips had everything we needed for at least two weeks and one was for over a month.
Maybe parent assumed that everyone knew about this.
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http://www.hyperspacehome.com/hyperwrt/index.php?
http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/
http://www.sveasoft.com/content/view/3/1/
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysW
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wifi-box/
Not a complete list and some of the above may be a little dated but you can get an idea of the additional features that hackers have been able to squeeze into these devices.
I can not speak for every device but I've personally used 4 different home routers that were boderline junk. A Siemens, an AT&T, Netgear and a SMC. Each has various locking and dropping issues and lack of various features I wanted.
A perfect example is the AT&T router playing SOCOM2 for the PS2. Even with the correct ports forwarded (which you should not have to do anyway), 50% of the time, the headset does not communicate. Another immediate show stopper is I get knocked out of games about every 10 minutes. The thing is a POS. I actually still use the device but only as an access point to my network for my laptop. The PS2 wired on it blows. I even tried just using the device as nothing more then a 4 port switch with the PS2 and I still got kicked off the game servers. I'd like to blame the PS2 but I only have those problems with the AT&T device.
After experiencing various issues like that (not all PS2 related either), I finally built my own router using an old PC and a Smoothwall iso so I am out of the market for a home router device now. It would be nice to have a device that had more frequent firmware updates based on feedback from other hackers and users. Based on my experience, I can see why people would feel more comfortable with a hackable device as well.
DCA and nearby IAD (Dulles International) are run by MWAA (Washington Municipal Airports Authority). One of their commitments to the airport customers and maintained through their contracts with the vendors renting airport space, is to maintain the same prices as the same vendors charge off airport property. Meaning, the TGIF at Dulles has to charge its customers roughly the same as any other TGIF in the Washington DC area. No gouging allowed. Some of the vendors actually place some type of disclaimer on the receipt stating something like "Look, you paid the same price here as our Herndon VA location".
I worked at both aiports for a few years so I ate at the onsite resturants a lot.
Does anyone wonder why Open Source and Linux in general have a bad rep?
I don't.
OSS only gets a bad rep from the closed source companies in direct competition and the ones that tried and failed to make money from it or those that can not find a way to make money from it. That is not a reflection of the open source software itself.
The common model of making money with open source is to sell you a support contract.
Open source software is here and will always be here. Those that desire to try to make a profit from it does not change that. If they fail to make a profit, it is not because of the open source software caused the failure. The open source software will be around before, during, and after any of those companies come and go.
In conclusion, OSS is not broken at all like you claim. Some of the business methods and plans to make money from it are. This is not unique, MANY closed source companies have and continue to go out of business for the same exact reasons.
The purpose of filing for a patent is to give you legel credit for creating the idea. You have to start the process somewhere and someone has to valididate that your idea is truely unique somewhere.
Are you implying someone specific in this case got burned by waiting to make the idea official? How do you know the other party did not start working on this idea 5 or 15 years ago?
The question of legitimacy of sequels is exactly why Duke Nukem forever has not been released yet. All you people complaining and trash talking sequels are ruining it for those of us still waiting. Thanks for nothing you damn role playing game basement living low lag time no social life self auto-erotic hippies.
I have noticed the same thing. Even more so when you search for very specific model numbers like a "LG L1780U" which is a 17 LCD monitor. One thing that works for some searches is add review -prices to the search like ATI 9800 review -prices. Not perfect but eliminates some of the finley tuned crap sites. You could take it a step further and use ATI 9800 -"compare prices" -shopping -deals review. A PITA but it does narrow it down.
But yet you have the desire to print 8x10's out of them from home?
Can any Lasser printer get that cheap?
Color or black and white?
I got a LJ4+ when I left my previous job as a going away present. It had a relatively new toner already installed. I've printed about 6000 sheets so far with it and I've only had to pay for the paper.
Big picture though. Paying an extra $100 each for a warranty on 20 PC's is $2000. You could buy 3 spare PC's for that amount. In reality, most business PC warranties start at about $200 per pc for 3 years. Considering you can get a bare bones desktop system for about $500-600, you could buy 6 spare PC's for the 20 you need as hot spares and forget the extended warrenty and have less downtime with a broken PC waiting for repair. Even better would be to buy 2 spares and budget the rest of the money for anything that may break. ;)
The base 1 year warranty would still apply. Of course a lot of small businesses only have a secretary/PC person/materials person so it really depends on the ability of that person. If that person sucks at computers, you could cheat the system and buy 5 extended warranties and use those serial numbers when any of them break
Getting off topic here but people are always giving away to much information to fast. I was rear ended in traffic one time. The guy got out of his car and started complaining that I cut in front of him and slammed on my brakes. I said absolutely nothing until the police arrived. He ran up to the cop, told him the same thing but with more details. A few minutes later the cop came to me and asked what happened. I stated that immediatley after merging onto the highway, the traffic in front of me stopped dead. I hit my brakes to prevent hitting the car in front of me and then tapped my brakes repeatedly as he approached so he would see my brake lights and stop as well. The cop asked him if he saw my brake lights flashing and he said, "ahhh, no, when I looked, he was at a dead stop." He got a ticket. What I said was 100% true but if I had disclosed all the facts to the other driver before the police took our statements, he would have had time to try to make up a better defense and could have tailored his story. I know, a long and drawn out story but along the same lines of your suggestion to keep it quiet until you really need to speak.
I can change tapes in my Panasonic DV-15 camera and only miss about 20 seconds. You do not have to wait until the tape runs out to start a new one either. Once you get to the 50 minute point, jump at the chance when the lecturer is swapping slides or reaches for the glass of water. If you are only taping lectures and only need two hours, buy a $199 analog camera and record on EP speed. I know it sounds odd but try it first. I have been converting my old 8mm tapes to digital with my Radeon AIW. When all is said and done and I have the final product on a DVD and watching it on a television, there is almost no difference in video quality between the converted 8mm tapes and the video shot directly with my DV camera. Maybe my old ass Sony 8Mm was really good or my DV camera sucks. Either way...
Or, maybe I could just steal the stuff instead of pirate it then.
The criminal penalty is much less for actual physical theft from a store then it is for a copyright violation. The added benefit of physical theft is actually being able to register the software and get updates.
About drivers..
Many people are already familiar with Windows. Not that is any easier then Linux but being familiar makes it easy. Keep in mind, there are people familiar with Linux as well.
An example from today.
New XP machine and a new HP9050 printer on the network with an IP of 192.168.0.100.
Start --> Printers and Faxes. Select add new printer. I select next at the Add printer wizard box. I am given the option of "Local printer attached to this computer" or Network Printer. I select Netowrk Printer.
"What printer do you want to connect to?" I try all three options with the printer ip address. None of them work. I go back and select "Local printer attached to this computer". Odd, it's not attached to my computer, it's on the network but I'll try it anyway. I select next and a box pops up and says No PNP printer found, press next to continue. I guess the box "Automatically detect and install my PNP printer" was checked by default. I browse through the list of available ports and do not see my network printer. I choose the other option called "Create a new Port". Standard TCP/IP Printer port is my best guess. When trying to create the port I recieve an error saying the port could not be created and i needed administrative rights to do that. I log off and log in as local administrator. I get back to that point and create the port with the printers IP address. I immediately get a prompt telling me to indentify what type of device I am trying to connect to and given a list of devices. I had the printer turned off so i turned it on and tried again. Ah, it determined it is a HP Jetdirect card now and Windows is asking me what type of printer am I trying to install. I am presented with a list of drivers I'd like to use. I browse through the HP printers and do not see the LJ 9050 listed. I cancel the process and hit HP's web site. After some searching around I see 2 drivers that look good for XP, a PCL5e and PCL6, I assume I do not need the 9050 printer system which is over 50MB in size. I browse the readme files and I have no idea which one I need or which is better. I decide to get the PCL5e because it only 5.8MB. I download and run the install. I am presented with two options. Automatically install the drivers and delete the temp files on completion or if I'd just like to expand the files into a specific directory. I take the default to perform the install automatically. That process completed. Well, what was that? I see no printers installed and now I have no idea what just happened or what was supposed to happen.
For a forth time, I go back into "Add Printer". I selected Local Printer and add port again, type my ip address in and this time recieve an error that the port is already installed on my system. Oh, I canceled out of the add printer wizard earlier when I realized I need drivers but the wizard did at least create my port. I am now presented with a same dialog box asking to pick my printer model. I still see no HP 9050 printer listed under the HP printers list. I tried to browse the HD for the driver but not only do I not know what I am looking for, I do not know where to look. I will run the HP9050 PCL5E driver file again. This time I select to just expand the file into the c:\hplj9050 directory. For about the fifth time. I go back to "add printer", select my previosuly configured port, and this time select have disk and point to that directory on c:\. Finally, it shows my printer and installs the driver. I can now print to my 9050!!!
Okay, in all honesty, I do this all day every day and it would really only take me about 3 minutes to get this installed but did you see those steps? Those are real steps and a realistic process of what a non computer geek would have to go through to get this printer installed. For someone NOT already familiar with Windows XP, this is by no means easy. It seems easy to you and others because you take it for granted because you have been using and messing with the OS for years. For someone who has not been, the process would be no easier then installing the same printer on a Linux system.