So your saying that the 10 to 15 GB of amature racing videos and my physche iso's that people are always downloading from me are not legitimate use of P2P? What % of non infringing/infringing matierial do you find acceptable to be considered legitimate? What makes your % any more right then my % or a judges %? Don't you think the media companies are going to have a higher % then all of us? Should we shut down alt.binaries? What % would make them not legitimate anymore? What about IM file xfers? What about MS file and print sharing or Samba? What about cdr's? Each has illegal and non illegal uses, fractions of what it is used for will vary greatly depending on what else is around. If P2P goes away I am losing my right to my 100% legal use of it.
You are no longer trying to prove your point from a technical perspective, you are now using your opinion. That is exactly what I was refering to in my previous post about you falling under (3) for personal reasons.
Never said that. I said that there are non-trivial, legitimate uses that cannot be as well served with anything other than a gun. In other words, there's a need for a gun. It serves a purpose.
Here is what you said:
Guns have tons of legitimate uses that cannot be carried out with any other tool
Initally you were trying to imply a black and white point that a gun is the ONLY thing that could be used therfore its existance is justified and P2P had no purpose as other tools could be used. Well myself and others have pointed out things you could use other then a gun and reasons why P2P was better then others for certain things. Now it is not black and white anymore. You chose to ignore that.
You choose to use a gun in your examples because it is convienent, quick, does the job well and efficiently over other methods.
I choose to use a P2P in my examples because it is convienent, quick, does the job well and efficiently over other methods.
Archie was great if you new the file name and the files and sites were relatively static and established. Basic file descriptions were the only other thing it offered. Your references to Archie are strange none the less so I am going to point out some advantages of P2P below. The only way you would NOT know these already would be if (1) your trolling, (2) you've never actually used a P2P application for specific interest searches, or (3) you simply refuse to ackowledge these advantages because of your existing dislike for P2P regardless. In your case I believe the later which makes this whole thread mute because you obviously don't like P2P and probably have other more personal reasons why like, your frustration for potential copyright violations, your friend died from a heart attack while searching on Napster, you got hit by the spyware because you did not look for alternate sources etc..
P2P took off because it combined many tools into one and added many others that were not available. It is far more accurate and updated in near real time across millions of hosts, it is distributed to ensure files could be available to many more users and expanded as the files propagate through the system. You can download from multiple sources at the same time. You can search by author name, type of media, general description of media, has a user rating system, file names, size, and many more. It spreads the bandwidth out over every user instead of concentrating on a few hosts blah blah.
Bottom line though.. Any method you can find to easily and freely distribute non infringing media can also be used to spread infringing media. What the media conglomerates are trying to do is shut it ALL down and pretend that the non infringing uses don't exist.
But more importantly, you forgot the most important legitimate use of a gun: defense.
I never said guns did not have legtimate uses. They are very good at what there were designed for and the most efficient/easiest tool to use in almost all cases. I was commenting on your all encompassing statement that a gun was the ONLY tool that could be used.
Fine. But you could have done it better with other tools, tools that have non-trivial legitimate uses.
And your answer is anonymous ftp? You call that a better solution? Dude, you cant be serious. How in the hell are you going to find these ftp servers and search through there contents for what your looking for? How long are you going to search for and inside of anonymous ftp servers for a amature video of a person going 180mph on a motorcycle? What happens when those anonymous FTP servers also have MP3's on it, does that now make FTP illegal?
Are you being sarcastic? I do not believe these two are related in any way shape or form but I'll bite anyway.
Guns have tons of legitimate uses that cannot be carried out with any other tool: hunting, sport shooting, defense.
You mean no other tool if you want to sit on your lazy ass up in a tree stand and hope something comes within 100 yards of you. I have nothing against hunting with a gun, just trying to show a different viewpoint. Yes, obviously sport shooting as that does require a gun but the others are bull. You can hunt with many tools like arrows, traps, spears, rod and reel, sling shot, knife, stun gun etc... Might be a little harder from a distance but people have been using these for thousands of years and still do, well not the stun gun.
P2P networks have no legitimate uses at all that cannot be (better!) carried out with another tool.
Just because a tool might seem better for what you are doing does not make it better for everyone. I have downloaded and upload gigs worth of car pictures, street racing videos, local track racing videos, and amature videos (not porn either) from P2P, all non MPAA/RIAA and free to distibute. Where else can I find a repostitory of these things? Where else can I post and share my material with others and NOT have to go through a third party commercial entity that charges per GB or can hold a few GB's of material for as cheap as P2P can do from my home PC? Add that it be non centralized and searchable for everyone to use freely and participate. Sure I can search around with Google and find stuff on web pages here and there, some on usenet and very little on IRC but all of these combined are many orders below what I can find on P2P.
I doubt this would provide you a safe haven for child pern but it may pull some weight on other forms of expression. I wondered about this same thing with EULA's and user agreements. What about the free hosting that claims everything posted to their site becomes the sole property of that site owner? Does that mean you can post DVD decryption sequences or some other anti-DMCA material and you are off the hook? After all, they own it now. They choose to blindly accept the data and claim to exclusively own the material. I would say you are safe. I was surprised this time when I went to get some terms of service quotes to post here showing this "loophole". Last year there was a similar topic on/. and these agreements were worded differently. Seems now the big guys are catching on.
Yahoo/Geocities seems to have this covered: 7. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO GEOCITIES Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your Yahoo GeoCities Site.
As does MSN/Hotmail:
MATERIALS PROVIDED TO MICROSOFT OR POSTED AT ANY MSN WEB SITE
Microsoft does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Microsoft (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any MSN Site/Service or its associated services for review by the general public
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Here's an interesting idea if the thing accepts outside commands.. You could develop and fine tune your ride from the coasters web site and show up at the actual ride, input your data and ride away. I imagine the device could be wired directly to the internet and you could logon when in line and pull your config or you could print out a barcode checksum at home of your creation and scan it just before getting on the ride. People could swap barcodes and try each others out and you could vote on a 10 best, it could integrated into Roller Coaster Tycoon or Sim coaster blah blah blah. Hurry, call the patent office...
About a year ago in DC, I heard radio commercials about the Hudson PCB issue all day long for about a month. GE and opponents were really trying to make a point to the general population in Northern VA and DC for some reason. They did not appear to be candidate related so I doubt it was for the elections. Maybe trying to gain support for a big contractor or something. Same with the Joint Strike Fighter contract and the Tauzin/Dingell bill.
I was the new proud owner of an off-white LaserJet4 with a 475000 page count! I was really lucky because the toner had just been replaced and I think the paper tray was at least half full. Since I take mass transit, I did not want to kill myself and/or look like a complete idiot trying to lug that thing onto the subway so I left it in my cube and was waiting for a day I could drive to work and get it. Well I waited too long because last week they "borrowed" it back for a contractor's temp use in a conference room and although he's long gone, I havent seen the printer since, I think that fucker took it with him.
They used to keep track of everything on paper and pencil. Both being wood related products they decided to use plastic and other chemically derived non biodegradable products like those commonly used in the production of electronic devices to show how much they care for the environment.
In related news, the Loggers Local 131 union hired non union workers to build their new headquarters because of the significant cost savings over using union labor.
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I know the system is bogus now. I logged in under that account and reviewed a fly trap/lure. Now the Slashdot recomended page suggests this:
Customers who bought Flowtron FA-5000 Fly Sex Lure also bought:
Playboy Magazine Subscription Average Customer Review: Our Price: $15.96
The Bedside Kama Sutra by Linda Sonntag Average Customer Review: Our Price: $13.97
What the hell do those things have in common with a bug catcher. I appears to me they are using the sex and nothing else to determine what others have bought. I could see if they suggested Off bug spray or something. Based on this alone I would say their what others bought is complete bullshit.
I know everyones experiences are different but mine are almost exactly the same as yours.
Sony STR-1070av? Pro Logic reciever in early 90's failed early with a bad connection in the volume control. The torque from the electronic volume control would cause various popping and power cycling. Smacking would bring it back to life.
Sony 5 disc changer. Ribbon cable connecting tray to login board failed and was intermittent. I was able to replace that.
2 Sony 8mm camcorders. both with tray mechanisms issues within 2 years.
Sony car stereo. CDX6020, "higher end" for time (had only preouts) but failed within one year, rejected any cd placed into it.
Sony Hi-Fi VCR (SLV-575 I believe), nice hi-fi vcr, had audio level controls and looked cool. Failed within 1.5 years, capstan motor. I replaced it myself but lack the tools and desire to calibrate the tape path axis guides so it still works to this day for playing tapes but can't view things that it recorded as the calibration is off.
All of this was in a 4 year time frame in the early 90's. I have not bought a single thing from them costing more then $20 since.
I bought my VW Golf two years ago, and i'm very pleased with it, except for that crappy in-dash radio they MADE me buy. I could not buy the vehicle without buying the radio. Maybe we can organize a Factory Radio Refund Day?
When I bought my car, Ford offered a radio credit option, give them back the radio and they give you $500. I do not know if that is still an option though. Another point, you can take that radio out and sell it seperately from the car. You can put that radio in another car. You can take that radio apart and do what you want with it after you bought it.
Likewise, my townhome came with really terrible, contractor grade windows. I hate them. I was not allowed to buy the townhome without these windows. Maybe I can get my money back for them as well?
When building a house, you can choose any window you want, in a townhouse that is not an option. You can negotiate a selling price on that house based on your assessment. Cheap windows = cheaper price and the same things apply here as above, you can sell and modify those windows after you replace them with new ones.
There are many things in the real world that are sold as itegrated and some not. In my view, computer software is not and intergral part of computer hardware and should be allowed to be seperated, after all, the MS EULA specifically says you can get a refund of unused software, imagine VW claiming you could get a refund on the radio but you not being able to actually get it? That is the issue here. Considering those MS licenses are a larger % of the total cost it makes it worse
I guess buying a brand new car but requesting that they remove the glove box door and 2 of the four spark plugs because you don't want to pay for them is a little unrealistic, comparing that to completely removing MS software is not the same.
Anyone that rides a motorcycle hopefully already knows this.. use LEATHER!!
It's not just a Harley thing or a status symbol, it is for safety. Leather boots, pants and gloves with hard sole boots or shoes. In a motorcycle ejection or fall off, it is better to gradually slide to a stop then to stick to the ground and tumble around. Leather will allow you to slide while protecting the skin and provide a decent stopping friction. It does not help much when slamming into something where conservation of momentum is tested but for most motorcycle dumps and mishaps it can save your life.
Have you ever worked at a big company? I've worked at a few, and my personal experience is that in really large companies (say, more than 1000 employees) this very particular organizational rot sets in...
I can vouch for that dude. I am a former employee and current stock holder of United Airlines. This describes them perfectly.
Back in the mid 80's I had a 5in Sony color TV mounted under the dash in my car (it fit perfectly and was angled correctly also). No VCR but I did have an Atari in it. Used to play it before school in the parking lot. Local channel 6 was NBC and you could pick up the audio part way down the lower end of the FM dial on the car stereo. Wasn't actually in stereo but it added a slight wow factor.
I think I found what your looking for. Check this out. Its about the same in specs (actually better) plus includes the following for the same price: a KB, built in mouse, 14.1 screen, ability to plug into the lighter socket, and get this, can run Linux and even comes with battery so you can take it out of the car! What are they going to think of next!
The band isn't regulated, so you can do what you want. They have to accept interference from your 2.4Ghz devices.. soo.. read between the lines if you're spiteful.
I believe that same law states your device can not cause interference to other devices also. Not that a law could actually prevent interference.
I would venture to say that if this ever did catch on, the rules would be changed to protect the business that is profiting from it. The FCC did the same thing with frequecies that are currently used by pagers, cordless phones, and cell phones. Since the invention of radio wave broadcasts these allocated frequencies were open to monitoring from the public. Big companies came along and made a conscience effort to roll services using insecure unencrypted cell phones and pagers in these regions. To protect their business and promote a false sense of security the government passed laws to make it illegal to listen to these bands and added to the law several times to prevent equipment from even recieving these bands. So, after the fact the government stepped in to protect the business cash flow. What used to be open and free to recieve was taken away.
Instead complain that they sell products at a loss to drive out competitors, then raise their prices.
This sounds good in theory but I have not actually ever seen a single instance of this. I saw a 20/20 show years ago about their pharmacy doing this but there was no real evidence that prices were raised after a local store went out of business. I have lived in many places across the county and travel frequently. I can tell you this about Walmart's prices, they are pretty much exactly the same for the same products at almost every Walmart (with the exception of Hawaii). Maybe a few cents here and there but nothing more. A battery for my car costs the same in Pittsburgh, Norfolk and in Maryland, a set of three cooking pans from Mirro is $10 in all three also. CD's in all three that same. I would bet 99% of all of the prices are exactly the same across these three areas and they are 7 hours apart. This is NOT undercutting to get rid of the guy next door and then raise next month when he goes out of business. If this was the plan I would think that every small store owner would have to collapse at the same time everywhere. Even a few cents per product on some things is not going to put Mr Small out of business. Small town mom and pops were dead years before Walmart came to power, the days of shopping downtown and at local strip stores were gone long ago.
I've often wondered why a two piece conventional freon refrigerator never caught on. You could place the compressor, condenser, and the support structure outside the house connected with two hoses (same as your whole house AC). This would eliminate most of the internal noise and be far more efficient as you are not releasing the hot air from inside the fridge + the electrical and mechanical losses into the house. In the fall through spring season cycle it would even be more an advantage as it is often much cooler outside then in the house and the compressor could even be bypassed. This would allow for smaller, quiter, and higher efficiency refrigerators and allow more flexibility as you could replace the inside and outside units seperately when and if needed. The inital conversion would be a little higher because you'd have to run lines and a concrete pad or wall hanging device outside but long term it would be much less. Installation in new construction would be simple. Anyone have some VC money they want to get rid of?
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So your saying that the 10 to 15 GB of amature racing videos and my physche iso's that people are always downloading from me are not legitimate use of P2P? What % of non infringing/infringing matierial do you find acceptable to be considered legitimate? What makes your % any more right then my % or a judges %? Don't you think the media companies are going to have a higher % then all of us? Should we shut down alt.binaries? What % would make them not legitimate anymore? What about IM file xfers? What about MS file and print sharing or Samba? What about cdr's? Each has illegal and non illegal uses, fractions of what it is used for will vary greatly depending on what else is around. If P2P goes away I am losing my right to my 100% legal use of it.
You are no longer trying to prove your point from a technical perspective, you are now using your opinion. That is exactly what I was refering to in my previous post about you falling under (3) for personal reasons.
Never said that. I said that there are non-trivial, legitimate uses that cannot be as well served with anything other than a gun. In other words, there's a need for a gun. It serves a purpose.
Here is what you said:
Guns have tons of legitimate uses that cannot be carried out with any other tool
Initally you were trying to imply a black and white point that a gun is the ONLY thing that could be used therfore its existance is justified and P2P had no purpose as other tools could be used. Well myself and others have pointed out things you could use other then a gun and reasons why P2P was better then others for certain things. Now it is not black and white anymore. You chose to ignore that.
You choose to use a gun in your examples because it is convienent, quick, does the job well and efficiently over other methods.
I choose to use a P2P in my examples because it is convienent, quick, does the job well and efficiently over other methods.
Archie was great if you new the file name and the files and sites were relatively static and established. Basic file descriptions were the only other thing it offered. Your references to Archie are strange none the less so I am going to point out some advantages of P2P below. The only way you would NOT know these already would be if (1) your trolling, (2) you've never actually used a P2P application for specific interest searches, or (3) you simply refuse to ackowledge these advantages because of your existing dislike for P2P regardless. In your case I believe the later which makes this whole thread mute because you obviously don't like P2P and probably have other more personal reasons why like, your frustration for potential copyright violations, your friend died from a heart attack while searching on Napster, you got hit by the spyware because you did not look for alternate sources etc..
P2P took off because it combined many tools into one and added many others that were not available. It is far more accurate and updated in near real time across millions of hosts, it is distributed to ensure files could be available to many more users and expanded as the files propagate through the system. You can download from multiple sources at the same time. You can search by author name, type of media, general description of media, has a user rating system, file names, size, and many more. It spreads the bandwidth out over every user instead of concentrating on a few hosts blah blah.
Bottom line though..
Any method you can find to easily and freely distribute non infringing media can also be used to spread infringing media. What the media conglomerates are trying to do is shut it ALL down and pretend that the non infringing uses don't exist.
But more importantly, you forgot the most important legitimate use of a gun: defense.
I never said guns did not have legtimate uses. They are very good at what there were designed for and the most efficient/easiest tool to use in almost all cases. I was commenting on your all encompassing statement that a gun was the ONLY tool that could be used.
Fine. But you could have done it better with other tools, tools that have non-trivial legitimate uses.
And your answer is anonymous ftp? You call that a better solution? Dude, you cant be serious.
How in the hell are you going to find these ftp servers and search through there contents for what your looking for? How long are you going to search for and inside of anonymous ftp servers for a amature video of a person going 180mph on a motorcycle? What happens when those anonymous FTP servers also have MP3's on it, does that now make FTP illegal?
Are you being sarcastic? I do not believe these two are related in any way shape or form but I'll bite anyway.
Guns have tons of legitimate uses that cannot be carried out with any other tool: hunting, sport shooting, defense.
You mean no other tool if you want to sit on your lazy ass up in a tree stand and hope something comes within 100 yards of you. I have nothing against hunting with a gun, just trying to show a different viewpoint.
Yes, obviously sport shooting as that does require a gun but the others are bull. You can hunt with many tools like arrows, traps, spears, rod and reel, sling shot, knife, stun gun etc... Might be a little harder from a distance but people have been using these for thousands of years and still do, well not the stun gun.
P2P networks have no legitimate uses at all that cannot be (better!) carried out with another tool.
Just because a tool might seem better for what you are doing does not make it better for everyone. I have downloaded and upload gigs worth of car pictures, street racing videos, local track racing videos, and amature videos (not porn either) from P2P, all non MPAA/RIAA and free to distibute. Where else can I find a repostitory of these things? Where else can I post and share my material with others and NOT have to go through a third party commercial entity that charges per GB or can hold a few GB's of material for as cheap as P2P can do from my home PC? Add that it be non centralized and searchable for everyone to use freely and participate. Sure I can search around with Google and find stuff on web pages here and there, some on usenet and very little on IRC but all of these combined are many orders below what I can find on P2P.
I doubt this would provide you a safe haven for child pern but it may pull some weight on other forms of expression. I wondered about this same thing with EULA's and user agreements. What about the free hosting that claims everything posted to their site becomes the sole property of that site owner? Does that mean you can post DVD decryption sequences or some other anti-DMCA material and you are off the hook? After all, they own it now. They choose to blindly accept the data and claim to exclusively own the material. I would say you are safe. /. and these agreements were worded differently. Seems now the big guys are catching on.
I was surprised this time when I went to get some terms of service quotes to post here showing this "loophole". Last year there was a similar topic on
Yahoo/Geocities seems to have this covered:
7. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO GEOCITIES
Yahoo does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your Yahoo GeoCities Site.
As does MSN/Hotmail:
MATERIALS PROVIDED TO MICROSOFT OR POSTED AT ANY MSN WEB SITE
Microsoft does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Microsoft (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any MSN Site/Service or its associated services for review by the general public
Here's an interesting idea if the thing accepts outside commands..
You could develop and fine tune your ride from the coasters web site and show up at the actual ride, input your data and ride away. I imagine the device could be wired directly to the internet and you could logon when in line and pull your config or you could print out a barcode checksum at home of your creation and scan it just before getting on the ride. People could swap barcodes and try each others out and you could vote on a 10 best, it could integrated into Roller Coaster Tycoon or Sim coaster blah blah blah. Hurry, call the patent office...
About a year ago in DC, I heard radio commercials about the Hudson PCB issue all day long for about a month. GE and opponents were really trying to make a point to the general population in Northern VA and DC for some reason. They did not appear to be candidate related so I doubt it was for the elections. Maybe trying to gain support for a big contractor or something. Same with the Joint Strike Fighter contract and the Tauzin/Dingell bill.
I was the new proud owner of an off-white LaserJet4 with a 475000 page count! I was really lucky because the toner had just been replaced and I think the paper tray was at least half full. Since I take mass transit, I did not want to kill myself and/or look like a complete idiot trying to lug that thing onto the subway so I left it in my cube and was waiting for a day I could drive to work and get it. Well I waited too long because last week they "borrowed" it back for a contractor's temp use in a conference room and although he's long gone, I havent seen the printer since, I think that fucker took it with him.
If you really do this often, there are much better tools for this then you standing around swapping individual cd's.
Padus Discjuggler Professional has support for synchronous cd writing and supports robot arms for swapping discs.
They used to keep track of everything on paper and pencil. Both being wood related products they decided to use plastic and other chemically derived non biodegradable products like those commonly used in the production of electronic devices to show how much they care for the environment.
In related news, the Loggers Local 131 union hired non union workers to build their new headquarters because of the significant cost savings over using union labor.
To clarify the phrase..
Slashdotted
Yet another interesting Google function.
I know the system is bogus now. I logged in under that account and reviewed a fly trap/lure. Now the Slashdot recomended page suggests this:
Customers who bought Flowtron FA-5000 Fly Sex Lure also bought:
Playboy
Magazine Subscription
Average Customer Review:
Our Price: $15.96
The Bedside Kama Sutra
by Linda Sonntag
Average Customer Review:
Our Price: $13.97
What the hell do those things have in common with a bug catcher. I appears to me they are using the sex and nothing else to determine what others have bought. I could see if they suggested Off bug spray or something. Based on this alone I would say their what others bought is complete bullshit.
I know everyones experiences are different but mine are almost exactly the same as yours.
Sony STR-1070av? Pro Logic reciever in early 90's failed early with a bad connection in the volume control. The torque from the electronic volume control would cause various popping and power cycling. Smacking would bring it back to life.
Sony 5 disc changer. Ribbon cable connecting tray to login board failed and was intermittent. I was able to replace that.
2 Sony 8mm camcorders. both with tray mechanisms issues within 2 years.
Sony car stereo. CDX6020, "higher end" for time (had only preouts) but failed within one year, rejected any cd placed into it.
Sony Hi-Fi VCR (SLV-575 I believe), nice hi-fi vcr, had audio level controls and looked cool. Failed within 1.5 years, capstan motor. I replaced it myself but lack the tools and desire to calibrate the tape path axis guides so it still works to this day for playing tapes but can't view things that it recorded as the calibration is off.
All of this was in a 4 year time frame in the early 90's. I have not bought a single thing from them costing more then $20 since.
I get an adrenaline rush and the urge to ram their car
Hopefully not with your motorcycle. The rest of your urge sounds reasonable.
Assuming Windows OEM costs $75, that $399 could be $324 without MS Windows. For your $399 example that is roughly 19% of the total purchase price.
Compare equivelent Walmart Microtels
With Windows
Without Windows
$100 difference which is a 33% markup.
Modded as interesting?
I bought my VW Golf two years ago, and i'm very pleased with it, except for that crappy in-dash radio they MADE me buy. I could not buy the vehicle without buying the radio. Maybe we can organize a Factory Radio Refund Day?
When I bought my car, Ford offered a radio credit option, give them back the radio and they give you $500. I do not know if that is still an option though. Another point, you can take that radio out and sell it seperately from the car. You can put that radio in another car. You can take that radio apart and do what you want with it after you bought it.
Likewise, my townhome came with really terrible, contractor grade windows. I hate them. I was not allowed to buy the townhome without these windows. Maybe I can get my money back for them as well?
When building a house, you can choose any window you want, in a townhouse that is not an option. You can negotiate a selling price on that house based on your assessment. Cheap windows = cheaper price and the same things apply here as above, you can sell and modify those windows after you replace them with new ones.
There are many things in the real world that are sold as itegrated and some not. In my view, computer software is not and intergral part of computer hardware and should be allowed to be seperated, after all, the MS EULA specifically says you can get a refund of unused software, imagine VW claiming you could get a refund on the radio but you not being able to actually get it? That is the issue here. Considering those MS licenses are a larger % of the total cost it makes it worse
I guess buying a brand new car but requesting that they remove the glove box door and 2 of the four spark plugs because you don't want to pay for them is a little unrealistic, comparing that to completely removing MS software is not the same.
Anyone that rides a motorcycle hopefully already knows this.. use LEATHER!!
It's not just a Harley thing or a status symbol, it is for safety. Leather boots, pants and gloves with hard sole boots or shoes. In a motorcycle ejection or fall off, it is better to gradually slide to a stop then to stick to the ground and tumble around. Leather will allow you to slide while protecting the skin and provide a decent stopping friction. It does not help much when slamming into something where conservation of momentum is tested but for most motorcycle dumps and mishaps it can save your life.
Have you ever worked at a big company? I've worked at a few, and my personal experience is that in really large companies (say, more than 1000 employees) this very particular organizational rot sets in ...
I can vouch for that dude. I am a former employee and current stock holder of United Airlines. This describes them perfectly.
I have a septic system, in my case this would only benefit my local area network..
Back in the mid 80's I had a 5in Sony color TV mounted under the dash in my car (it fit perfectly and was angled correctly also). No VCR but I did have an Atari in it. Used to play it before school in the parking lot. Local channel 6 was NBC and you could pick up the audio part way down the lower end of the FM dial on the car stereo. Wasn't actually in stereo but it added a slight wow factor.
I think I found what your looking for. Check this out.
Its about the same in specs (actually better) plus includes the following for the same price:
a KB, built in mouse, 14.1 screen, ability to plug into the lighter socket, and get this, can run Linux and even comes with battery so you can take it out of the car! What are they going to think of next!
The band isn't regulated, so you can do what you want. They have to accept interference from your 2.4Ghz devices.. soo.. read between the lines if you're spiteful.
I believe that same law states your device can not cause interference to other devices also. Not that a law could actually prevent interference.
I would venture to say that if this ever did catch on, the rules would be changed to protect the business that is profiting from it. The FCC did the same thing with frequecies that are currently used by pagers, cordless phones, and cell phones. Since the invention of radio wave broadcasts these allocated frequencies were open to monitoring from the public. Big companies came along and made a conscience effort to roll services using insecure unencrypted cell phones and pagers in these regions. To protect their business and promote a false sense of security the government passed laws to make it illegal to listen to these bands and added to the law several times to prevent equipment from even recieving these bands. So, after the fact the government stepped in to protect the business cash flow. What used to be open and free to recieve was taken away.
I think its more like this:
8. Frustrated, Fire up P2P
8a. If exist on P2P, download and enjoy
8b. Listen to something else and redo step 8 later
8c. Buy it and continue to step 9
Instead complain that they sell products at a loss to drive out competitors, then raise their prices.
This sounds good in theory but I have not actually ever seen a single instance of this. I saw a 20/20 show years ago about their pharmacy doing this but there was no real evidence that prices were raised after a local store went out of business. I have lived in many places across the county and travel frequently. I can tell you this about Walmart's prices, they are pretty much exactly the same for the same products at almost every Walmart (with the exception of Hawaii). Maybe a few cents here and there but nothing more. A battery for my car costs the same in Pittsburgh, Norfolk and in Maryland, a set of three cooking pans from Mirro is $10 in all three also. CD's in all three that same. I would bet 99% of all of the prices are exactly the same across these three areas and they are 7 hours apart. This is NOT undercutting to get rid of the guy next door and then raise next month when he goes out of business. If this was the plan I would think that every small store owner would have to collapse at the same time everywhere. Even a few cents per product on some things is not going to put Mr Small out of business. Small town mom and pops were dead years before Walmart came to power, the days of shopping downtown and at local strip stores were gone long ago.
I've often wondered why a two piece conventional freon refrigerator never caught on. You could place the compressor, condenser, and the support structure outside the house connected with two hoses (same as your whole house AC). This would eliminate most of the internal noise and be far more efficient as you are not releasing the hot air from inside the fridge + the electrical and mechanical losses into the house. In the fall through spring season cycle it would even be more an advantage as it is often much cooler outside then in the house and the compressor could even be bypassed. This would allow for smaller, quiter, and higher efficiency refrigerators and allow more flexibility as you could replace the inside and outside units seperately when and if needed. The inital conversion would be a little higher because you'd have to run lines and a concrete pad or wall hanging device outside but long term it would be much less. Installation in new construction would be simple. Anyone have some VC money they want to get rid of?