any morman I ever knew would care if I drank a beverage with caffine or drank a beer.
You say that, but try buying beer (or even porn) in Utah. Can't be done because they don't want you to have it. In New York state you can still get hot dogs, bacon and cheeseburgers....
Funny how different groups react, or perhaps differently how its ok in society to make fun of one group of ethnicity/religion/class but not another.
No one said it was okay, or not okay. You just missed the point that the poster didn't characterize the people he was talking about correctly.
It's ignorance, and someone stepped up to say he was wrong. BFD.
At least, I think you are saying that we treat Jews differently (that it isn't okay to make fun of them somehow?) - I can't make heads or tails out of that sentence.
What a great way to get people to read the story: lie and say registration is required. Then everyone ends up reading TFA because they want to see where the registration is required (so they can bitch about it).
Also great karma whoring - even though most people know that WaPo doesn't ever require registration.
iTunes, GarageBand, Final Cut, iDVD. Etc. Apple's been shipping this stuff for years. MSFT's just talking about what they hope to release, and talk is cheap.
The last three could never be made and released by Microsoft as part of Windows... never. Plus you've got to remember that these may ship with your Mac but they aren't aren't 'part of' OSX. And when it comes to iTunes, well MS has had DRM'd music since Windows Media Player 7 (...or was it eight). Ever heard of WMA?
Hell, even as far as "Music management / photo management / drm / desktop search " goes they all were in Windows XP - just not noticeably. Music could be managed with Media Player, photos don't really need management - but they could be sorted, filed and viewed with XP out of the box and desktop search is in there (you just have to turn that indexing service - that everyone told you to close - back on).
DRM? Well XP is DRM'd! They hold the patent on a DRM'd OS and no one but MSFT has the desire to make a DRM'd OS.
It is free, as in beer, and runs great on XP, 2000 and even Media Center (2004 & 2005). I've been using it on a Windows 2000 system with great success (the mainboard sucks and most features aren't supported in Linux, damn HP!). The PC has a 900 Mhz Celeron, 192 MB of RAM and the WinTV-PVR 500 (dual tuner) - works great, I watch a show while it records two with no problems.
Not when Norton takes over the DOS installation and it can be run, AT ALL, without the the tree. Then files are spread out and hidden. Binary modifications are hard to undo as well.
It should have come with a label.
However, I disagree with the people who say that the anti-virus scanner is slow or takes up all of the CPU or RAM. I run it on my PVR and it never bothers the playback or recording and the machine is ancient (an old celeron with no RAM, but the antivirus is the latest corporate, one of the most expensive upgrades).
They are in the business of spying on the public at large, for a fee. That scares me even more; it sets up the economic incentive to turn people in for the most minor crimes and maybe more laws. It only makes sense, it looks as if either Big Brother or some other fantasy dystopia is coming sooner than we hoped.
Norton/Symantec hasn't always been nice (are they now?) - remember when Norton Utilities couldn't be removed on DOS installations? The only option was to totally format the drive and start over. I know people who won't even try Norton/Symantec products after all of those years because of these types of problems.
This should be a cautionary tale about deploying beta products in production environments.
Why even use Anti-Spyware when Norton Anti-Virus (corporate edition at least) can detect and remove spyware in real time?
Google has no right to index all the books it wants and throw them online for anyone to browse. They are the property of the rightful owner, not Google.
I'm not trying to be funny here, but as long as Google buys the books before scanning them they are the rightful owners. I mean, what are we talking about here? Google is in the business of information searching and these books have information in them to be searched through. As long as Google isn't just scanning books for electronic distribution then they really haven't done anything wrong.
As far as I can see, Google wants to do two things: 1. Scan books into image form 2. OCR text to make content search-able
Those two things are not illegal or unethical. As an individual you have this right. Even if a corporation wants to undertake this type project, they can do it (corporations are protected as citizens under the 14th amendment), as long as they bought the books they scanned. In effect, they haven't actually copied anything, only transformed it to be computer digestible.
Of course being Google once this is done they want to let the world search the text. Fine, they aren't giving out the books so they have done even less than my local library does (which lends books out based on their right to do so, because the books are their property). Then again, my library doesn't let me search the entire text of the books they own.
Come to think of it, maybe we should be attacking those libraries that infringe on IP rights (ha!) and don't even give us a search function.
The only other thing I can think of is that maybe Google isn't allowed to display a page from a book that they don't have anymore; i.e. the book was destroyed or lost in storage. Maybe the publishers should institute audits on Google? The BSA would be perfect for this job, if they aren't available maybe there are a few Nazi's left around somewhere that will take the position.
I have one of these for my HTPC (ok a 900MHz/192MB/5 year old PVR) and you are exactly right. It allows you to use it at any angle and works perfectly for those who just need to move a bit every now and then to get comfortable. In fact, since the device easily resets when you use it there are no calibrations needed.
Works great as a desktop mouse because of the featured optical eye and comes with a great recharging stand (I love the way the LED throbs as it is being charged!).
I would just warn against leaving the mouse on a reflective or glass surface. I tend to leave mine on our glass coffee table where the laser thinks it saw something move... ALL DAY LONG. The laser bouncing around in the glass, combined with cats and feet under the table make the battery die a real quick death.
except for the fact that MSFT, Google, Apple, and Amazon need the telcos more than the telcos need them. By a wide margin -- and especially true for Google and Amazon (and eBay).
I don't know about all of that. Google, Amazon et al need users, the users need access. If there were no blogs, online stores, p2p sites, etc, there would be no need for "internet" access. I'm not paying for internet service just to have it - I'm paying because that is what it takes to get on the "interweb".
The problem is telco providers are in the middle and trying to get into the content control/creation/access game. If I were an Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon or eBay, I'd ask the telcos: Aren't you rich enough; don't you make enough money selling access to our services? The phone company wants to become the cable company (which is itself a total screw job. you pay for access to channels that are in turn paying themselves by bombarding you with ads - it's like being taxed twice and no doubt how things would operate under this proposed system).
All-in-all: Where will this leave independent content creators? If something like this happened the big names would all get together and share the pie - the rest of us with small sites would be designated the "free Internet zone" and not get a fscking dime.
Exactly, I'm off in the telemarketing department doing collections and so forth and I can't even give the card number to the customer. But for obvious reasons right? The fact that this list exists (say that out loud) makes me wonder wtf really happened.
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...I'll snag a copy of this conference and sell it to you for a few bucks so you can find out.
Also, look for copies of this conference, released on Disney DVD, to hit store shelves in the fall.
any morman I ever knew would care if I drank a beverage with caffine or drank a beer.
You say that, but try buying beer (or even porn) in Utah. Can't be done because they don't want you to have it. In New York state you can still get hot dogs, bacon and cheeseburgers....
So you've missed the point again.
let's be real - the parents can read, they don't care
Some stores, that already were weary about carrying GTA titles, pulled GTA from their shelves.
You can't sell games if no one can buy them.
Funny how different groups react, or perhaps differently how its ok in society to make fun of one group of ethnicity/religion/class but not another.
No one said it was okay, or not okay. You just missed the point that the poster didn't characterize the people he was talking about correctly.
It's ignorance, and someone stepped up to say he was wrong. BFD.
At least, I think you are saying that we treat Jews differently (that it isn't okay to make fun of them somehow?) - I can't make heads or tails out of that sentence.
Gentiles are damned anyway right?
Only if you don't accept Christ... we don't believe in damnation. In fact, we don't even believe in hell. That is a Greek idea (damnation).
They have your rated at "Informative" when the use of the fuck word makes you Funny and Insightful at the same time.
Use a standards complaint browser to break the rules!
Why do we even try to standardize anything anymore?
What a great way to get people to read the story: lie and say registration is required. Then everyone ends up reading TFA because they want to see where the registration is required (so they can bitch about it).
Also great karma whoring - even though most people know that WaPo doesn't ever require registration.
iTunes, GarageBand, Final Cut, iDVD. Etc. Apple's been shipping this stuff for years. MSFT's just talking about what they hope to release, and talk is cheap.
The last three could never be made and released by Microsoft as part of Windows... never. Plus you've got to remember that these may ship with your Mac but they aren't aren't 'part of' OSX. And when it comes to iTunes, well MS has had DRM'd music since Windows Media Player 7 (...or was it eight). Ever heard of WMA?
Hell, even as far as "Music management / photo management / drm / desktop search " goes they all were in Windows XP - just not noticeably. Music could be managed with Media Player, photos don't really need management - but they could be sorted, filed and viewed with XP out of the box and desktop search is in there (you just have to turn that indexing service - that everyone told you to close - back on).
DRM? Well XP is DRM'd! They hold the patent on a DRM'd OS and no one but MSFT has the desire to make a DRM'd OS.
God, I'm defending Windows.
It does seem that the photos disappeared as quick as they appeared.
A good alternative for Windows systems is GB-PVR:
http://www.gbpvr.com/
It is free, as in beer, and runs great on XP, 2000 and even Media Center (2004 & 2005). I've been using it on a Windows 2000 system with great success (the mainboard sucks and most features aren't supported in Linux, damn HP!). The PC has a 900 Mhz Celeron, 192 MB of RAM and the WinTV-PVR 500 (dual tuner) - works great, I watch a show while it records two with no problems.
Not when Norton takes over the DOS installation and it can be run, AT ALL, without the the tree. Then files are spread out and hidden. Binary modifications are hard to undo as well.
It should have come with a label.
However, I disagree with the people who say that the anti-virus scanner is slow or takes up all of the CPU or RAM. I run it on my PVR and it never bothers the playback or recording and the machine is ancient (an old celeron with no RAM, but the antivirus is the latest corporate, one of the most expensive upgrades).
Close the browser (IE) and do it. Or, wait until the browser is closed. Don't worry Symantec won't allow it to run.
Of course, it's not the governing that's forcing the chips on people, but it's only a matter of time.
Where have you been? Corporations are calling the shots - and look at the companies site:
http://www.citywatcher.com/
They are in the business of spying on the public at large, for a fee. That scares me even more; it sets up the economic incentive to turn people in for the most minor crimes and maybe more laws. It only makes sense, it looks as if either Big Brother or some other fantasy dystopia is coming sooner than we hoped.
Microsoft knows something we don't?
Norton/Symantec hasn't always been nice (are they now?) - remember when Norton Utilities couldn't be removed on DOS installations? The only option was to totally format the drive and start over. I know people who won't even try Norton/Symantec products after all of those years because of these types of problems.
This should be a cautionary tale about deploying beta products in production environments.
Why even use Anti-Spyware when Norton Anti-Virus (corporate edition at least) can detect and remove spyware in real time?
But Google isn't giving you a copy of the book or the work. They are, in essence, only letting you look at it - and not much of it in fact.
Maybe another stipulation would be that Google must not show the book to two people at once, provided they only own one copy of the book.
Keep waiting, the site has been Slashdotted.
Google has no right to index all the books it wants and throw them online for anyone to browse. They are the property of the rightful owner, not Google.
I'm not trying to be funny here, but as long as Google buys the books before scanning them they are the rightful owners. I mean, what are we talking about here? Google is in the business of information searching and these books have information in them to be searched through. As long as Google isn't just scanning books for electronic distribution then they really haven't done anything wrong.
As far as I can see, Google wants to do two things:
1. Scan books into image form
2. OCR text to make content search-able
Those two things are not illegal or unethical. As an individual you have this right. Even if a corporation wants to undertake this type project, they can do it (corporations are protected as citizens under the 14th amendment), as long as they bought the books they scanned. In effect, they haven't actually copied anything, only transformed it to be computer digestible.
Of course being Google once this is done they want to let the world search the text. Fine, they aren't giving out the books so they have done even less than my local library does (which lends books out based on their right to do so, because the books are their property). Then again, my library doesn't let me search the entire text of the books they own.
Come to think of it, maybe we should be attacking those libraries that infringe on IP rights (ha!) and don't even give us a search function.
The only other thing I can think of is that maybe Google isn't allowed to display a page from a book that they don't have anymore; i.e. the book was destroyed or lost in storage. Maybe the publishers should institute audits on Google? The BSA would be perfect for this job, if they aren't available maybe there are a few Nazi's left around somewhere that will take the position.
Not giving *any* reason when firing sounds like "Right to discriminate".
It's hard to prove that the boss fired you because you were Black when they gave no reason at all...
I have one of these for my HTPC (ok a 900MHz/192MB/5 year old PVR) and you are exactly right. It allows you to use it at any angle and works perfectly for those who just need to move a bit every now and then to get comfortable. In fact, since the device easily resets when you use it there are no calibrations needed.
Works great as a desktop mouse because of the featured optical eye and comes with a great recharging stand (I love the way the LED throbs as it is being charged!).
I would just warn against leaving the mouse on a reflective or glass surface. I tend to leave mine on our glass coffee table where the laser thinks it saw something move... ALL DAY LONG. The laser bouncing around in the glass, combined with cats and feet under the table make the battery die a real quick death.
except for the fact that MSFT, Google, Apple, and Amazon need the telcos more than the telcos need them. By a wide margin -- and especially true for Google and Amazon (and eBay).
I don't know about all of that. Google, Amazon et al need users, the users need access. If there were no blogs, online stores, p2p sites, etc, there would be no need for "internet" access. I'm not paying for internet service just to have it - I'm paying because that is what it takes to get on the "interweb".
The problem is telco providers are in the middle and trying to get into the content control/creation/access game. If I were an Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon or eBay, I'd ask the telcos: Aren't you rich enough; don't you make enough money selling access to our services? The phone company wants to become the cable company (which is itself a total screw job. you pay for access to channels that are in turn paying themselves by bombarding you with ads - it's like being taxed twice and no doubt how things would operate under this proposed system).
All-in-all: Where will this leave independent content creators? If something like this happened the big names would all get together and share the pie - the rest of us with small sites would be designated the "free Internet zone" and not get a fscking dime.
Stupid idea.
So I guess the new rule for me is, don't ever say anything at all about anything. Ever...ever.
I found this rule to work best at home and at work. The less you talk, the less trouble you get yourself into.
Exactly, I'm off in the telemarketing department doing collections and so forth and I can't even give the card number to the customer. But for obvious reasons right? The fact that this list exists (say that out loud) makes me wonder wtf really happened.
In Soviet Russia, Ethanol DWI's you!
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