Get an aggressive lawyer who cuts their balls off, who will attack any idiot troll. But the lawyer actually needs to know IP litigation and patent stuff. Find someone you would hate to have for a dinner party. Be prepared to fight. Be aggressive. Make them back down, and publicize the hell out your fight / victory. Dont look like the weak kid.
As a typing amateur I offer this advice: Don't Do It. It's too Hard. You will Fail. You Can't do it.
As somebody who doesn't like those kind of comments I offer This Advice: Go For It!! Kick Your Boundaries in the Nads!! Practice! Practice! Practice! And ENJOY THE ATTEMPT!!!!
Sue the ad companies for knowingly enabling viruses and trojans to infect citizens computers. Billions of $ in damages and lost income over the decades.
Since this will be mandatory, everyone will of course need a card to verify who they are. Probably not called Real ID though. That might worry some people.
backwoodshome.com - how people did it cheaply at home ( you will have to search for the info )
Wander into the bookstore and find the magazines? Home Power Magazine Backwoods Home Magazine Back Home Magazine Countryside Magazine.
And no, you dont need to tie into the grid with your system if you are just trying it out. Use the solar , wind or whatever to power something completly seperated electrically from the grid. A shed a set of yard lights or whatever.
The bigger impact is looking at your energy usage and cutting your load. CF lights instead of incandescent. Unplugging electonics when not in use. Isulation and sealing the house so it uses less energy.
Any farmer who has this happen to his/her Non-GMO crops gets together with an environmental group and sue Monsanto or whoever, for criminal tresspass, theft of private property, pollution, and ecoterrorism. It is basically what Monsanto does to everybody else.
Push the publicity continually. Make sure everyone knows that if ANY GMO crop shows up where it is not supposed to be, the person with that unauthorised crop will be sued to bankruptcy by Monsanto , or others.
If you MUST buy a New vehicle, always pay cash. Open a savings account or an interest paying checking account, (this is short term so you dont care about interest rates). Deposit the money you would have paid for the monthly payment in to this account and then ignore it until you are ready to buy.
$400 x 12 months = $4800 x 4 years = $19200. $450 x 12 months = $5400 x 4 years = $21600. $400 x 12 months = $4800 x 5 years = $24000. $450 x 12 months = $5400 x 5 years = $27000.
Buy the new car, then sell the "old" car. Put the money into the car fund and continue. Or hand it down to family. Anybody who can't "afford" to follow this simple plan can't "afford" a monthly payment on a loan either and should be buying used.
Cash. Always a great bargaining point.
Also: $400 x 12 months = $4800 x 40 years = $192,000. $450 x 12 months = $5400 x 40 years = $216,000. $400 x 12 months = $4800 x 50 years = $240,000. $450 x 12 months = $5400 x 50 years = $270,000. $400 x 12 months = $4800 x 60 years = $288,000. $450 x 12 months = $5400 x 60 years = $324,000.
If you want to see something fun try to figure what that becomes with compound interest instead.
Math that should be mandatory in all schools and grade levels. Screw calculus and cosines etc.
Get one with a card reader, put photos that you " think " she wants on it and give it to her. Then, sit down with your laptop with ALL of the photos you have ( well, not the porn etc. ) and have her choose what SHE wants. Explain about cropping, putting text on them, pretty frames etc. If she is willing to use a program to edit the photos herself, get her a basic computer and show her the BASICS. Otherwise YOU do the pretty bits, then GET THEM PRINTED.
You are looking at the pictures as "pretty bits that remind me of something". She looks at them as memories and as part of the person and place the photos are of.
Or, to put it another way, she is the customer trying to get something specific and you are the sales weasel trying to sell her a bunch of garbage she doesnt want or need.
Does an anime series that uses the concept count as prior art? The anime Mezzo: Danger Service Agency has this in it. There is even an episode featuring the way it functions.
If these players were both the same make and model and they both died while watching the same series, the disks probaly have some flakey parts that read like update instructions to the player, they may just need reset to factory specs. Check the website for instructions on how to reset them ( mine is something like - power on - press play and stop at same time - when dvd resets, select settings ). If you can reset these, try the disks again. If they still spork up. look on the manufacturers site for updated firmware, a contact number etc.
If nothing else return them ( if they arent past warranty ) and get the cheapest player with the features you want. Maybe $40 at Wally World , Circut City etc...
Most " Stuff" - matter & energy in the universe is so-called "Dark Matter/Dark Energy". What we call "Ordinary Mater" ( you , slashdots users,computers etc..) has almost no interaction with the with anything other than stuff like itself. So-called "Anti-Matter" doesnt get along well with "Ordinary matter" and stuff ( on whatever scale the interaction happens) goes boom when they get together. "Anti-Matter" probably gets along better with the rest of the ( Dark-Matter/Dark-Energy) universe a bit better and bonds a little bit better with it than "Ordinary-Matter".
Therefore those reading Slashdot are made up of the strangest type of matter, the parts that have the least to do with the rest of the universe...
Set up an old box with no net access and an unused/unneeded hard drive. Show them how to boot from the Knoppix CD. Show them point and click, copy/paste, where different program types are etc..
Tell them they cant hurt anything because:
A. Everything in this box is getting scrapped or is going to gather dust for 5 years.
B. It isnt connected to the network.
C. Everything they do ( except messing with the hard drive - formatting writing something to it etc.. HD is surplus etc..) will dissapear the next time it is shutdown.
Then ask what they wants to start doing, point the way, and stand back.
Encourage them to explore, and get them to laugh when something doesnt work. Then they will become a lot more comfortable with strange and cryptic programs and commands and not fear the computer.
( Yes, treat them like a small child learning something new. Basically, that is what is happening. )
If they do something they want to save, use a floppy or a USB key to save it.
-------------- DVDSynth is an open platform for developing various "virtual devices," particularly virtual CD/DVD-ROM drives and virtual discs to put in them. --------------
If you can make a virtual device AND a virtual disk, you can copy an installation disk to your hard drive ( ISO ), and do software installs from there. Some games, and anything else that look for the cd to verify before runing, could look to a virtual CD.
You could do the same for DVD's and have video parties without the worry of some doofus ( or 2 year old ) scratching a new DVD.
I believe there is something already released that does something similar under windows , but it is not open source.
Slashdot Mirror
Meh... So what... Maybe people need to re-learn how to let go.
Let it go.
Get an aggressive lawyer who cuts their balls off, who will attack any idiot troll. But the lawyer actually needs to know IP litigation and patent stuff. Find someone you would hate to have for a dinner party. Be prepared to fight. Be aggressive. Make them back down, and publicize the hell out your fight / victory. Dont look like the weak kid.
As a typing amateur I offer this advice:
Don't Do It.
It's too Hard.
You will Fail.
You Can't do it.
As somebody who doesn't like those kind of comments I offer This Advice:
Go For It!!
Kick Your Boundaries in the Nads!!
Practice! Practice! Practice!
And ENJOY THE ATTEMPT!!!!
I would want them to ACCEPT my policy's, and be bound by them. Until then, blanket blocking of ads is my policy.
Sue the ad companies for knowingly enabling viruses and trojans to infect citizens computers. Billions of $ in damages and lost income over the decades.
8 foot tall does not equal giant. 80 FOOT TALL = GIANT
Since this will be mandatory, everyone will of course need a card to verify who they are. Probably not called Real ID though. That might worry some people.
homepower.com - technical details
backwoodshome.com - how people did it cheaply at home ( you will have to search for the info )
Wander into the bookstore and find the magazines?
Home Power Magazine
Backwoods Home Magazine
Back Home Magazine
Countryside Magazine.
And no, you dont need to tie into the grid with your system if you are just trying it out.
Use the solar , wind or whatever to power something completly seperated electrically from the grid. A shed a set of yard lights or whatever.
The bigger impact is looking at your energy usage and cutting your load. CF lights instead of incandescent. Unplugging electonics when not in use.
Isulation and sealing the house so it uses less energy.
That would be easy to get them to do.
Any farmer who has this happen to his/her Non-GMO crops gets together with an environmental group and sue Monsanto or whoever, for criminal tresspass, theft of private property, pollution, and ecoterrorism. It is basically what Monsanto does to everybody else.
Push the publicity continually.
Make sure everyone knows that if ANY GMO crop shows up where it is not supposed to be, the person with that unauthorised crop will be sued to bankruptcy by Monsanto , or others.
http://www.daveramsey.com/
http://www.daveramsey.com/etc/cms/why_buy_a_used_car_5153.htmlc
http://www.daveramsey.com/etc/search/?strSearch=car+buying&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=submit
If you MUST buy a New vehicle, always pay cash.
Open a savings account or an interest paying checking account, (this is short term so you dont care about interest rates).
Deposit the money you would have paid for the monthly payment in to this account and then ignore it until you are ready to buy.
$400 x 12 months = $4800 x 4 years = $19200.
$450 x 12 months = $5400 x 4 years = $21600.
$400 x 12 months = $4800 x 5 years = $24000.
$450 x 12 months = $5400 x 5 years = $27000.
Buy the new car, then sell the "old" car. Put the money into the car fund and continue.
Or hand it down to family.
Anybody who can't "afford" to follow this simple plan can't "afford" a monthly payment on a loan either and should be buying used.
Cash. Always a great bargaining point.
Also:
$400 x 12 months = $4800 x 40 years = $192,000.
$450 x 12 months = $5400 x 40 years = $216,000.
$400 x 12 months = $4800 x 50 years = $240,000.
$450 x 12 months = $5400 x 50 years = $270,000.
$400 x 12 months = $4800 x 60 years = $288,000.
$450 x 12 months = $5400 x 60 years = $324,000.
If you want to see something fun try to figure what that becomes with compound interest instead.
Math that should be mandatory in all schools and grade levels. Screw calculus and cosines etc.
Get one with a card reader, put photos that you " think " she wants on it and give it to her.
Then, sit down with your laptop with ALL of the photos you have ( well, not the porn etc. ) and have her choose what SHE wants.
Explain about cropping, putting text on them, pretty frames etc. If she is willing to use a program to edit the photos herself, get her a basic computer and show her the BASICS. Otherwise YOU do the pretty bits, then GET THEM PRINTED.
You are looking at the pictures as "pretty bits that remind me of something". She looks at them as memories and as part of the person and place the photos are of.
Or, to put it another way, she is the customer trying to get something specific and you are the sales weasel trying to sell her a bunch of garbage she doesnt want or need.
Does an anime series that uses the concept count as prior art? The anime Mezzo: Danger Service Agency has this in it. There is even an episode featuring the way it functions.
If these players were both the same make and model and they both died while watching the same series, the disks probaly have some flakey parts that read like update instructions to the player, they may just need reset to factory specs. Check the website for instructions on how to reset them ( mine is something like - power on - press play and stop at same time - when dvd resets, select settings ). If you can reset these, try the disks again. If they still spork up. look on the manufacturers site for updated firmware, a contact number etc.
If nothing else return them ( if they arent past warranty ) and get the cheapest player with the features you want. Maybe $40 at Wally World , Circut City etc...
Most " Stuff" - matter & energy in the universe is so-called "Dark Matter/Dark Energy". What we call "Ordinary Mater" ( you , slashdots users,computers etc..) has almost no interaction with the with anything other than stuff like itself. So-called "Anti-Matter" doesnt get along well with "Ordinary matter" and stuff ( on whatever scale the interaction happens) goes boom when they get together. "Anti-Matter" probably gets along better with the rest of the ( Dark-Matter/Dark-Energy) universe a bit better and bonds a little bit better with it than "Ordinary-Matter".
Therefore those reading Slashdot are made up of the strangest type of matter, the parts that have the least to do with the rest of the universe...
Set up an old box with no net access and an unused/unneeded hard drive. Show them how to boot from the Knoppix CD. Show them point and click, copy/paste, where different program types are etc..
Tell them they cant hurt anything because:
A. Everything in this box is getting scrapped or is going to gather dust for 5 years.
B. It isnt connected to the network.
C. Everything they do ( except messing with the hard drive - formatting writing something to it etc.. HD is surplus etc..) will dissapear the next time it is shutdown.
Then ask what they wants to start doing, point the way, and stand back.
Encourage them to explore, and get them to laugh when something doesnt work. Then they will become a lot more comfortable with strange and cryptic programs and commands and not fear the computer.
( Yes, treat them like a small child learning something new. Basically, that is what is happening. )
If they do something they want to save, use a floppy or a USB key to save it.
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF02a/1245 4-64287-89301.html
From the Summary:
--------------
DVDSynth is an open platform for developing various "virtual devices," particularly virtual CD/DVD-ROM drives and virtual discs to put in them.
--------------
If you can make a virtual device AND a virtual disk, you can copy an installation disk to your hard drive ( ISO ), and do software installs from there. Some games, and anything else that look for the cd to verify before runing, could look to a virtual CD.
You could do the same for DVD's and have video parties without the worry of some doofus ( or 2 year old ) scratching a new DVD.
I believe there is something already released that does something similar under windows , but it is not open source.