So, let me try and get this straight. I can't sell my current player on eBay with pre-loaded tracks, but I can buy a new one from Amazon with pre-loaded tracks? OK, fine, what happens when I want to sell the Amazon one? Can I sell it with those pre-loaded tracks (and only those, and how do I know several years down the line which ones were pre-loaded) or do I have to strip them off as well? Can I copy them off and back them up? If the device dies and needs a hardware replacement, can (and will) Amazon pre-load the new hardware with the same tracks, or do I have to pay for them again? Will my insurance cover the cost of replacing these tracks (and any others that I've downloaded) as well as the device if it's broken or stolen, and even if does in theory, how can I prove that they were actually still on the device when it was lost?
It's a bit rich for music megacorps to demand that we respect copyright law when an informed and educated person can't in all honesty figure out what the law is, or specifically how it applies in cases like these.
By your own figures, 6 a month ("more than five") is $5.23, and you seem to have forgotten to include packaging and handling costs. Even without those, that's a very significant proportion of a $10 gross. In fact, you've actually convinced me that the referenced statement is more likely to be true than false.
Highly recommended. Having the primary buttons under your thumb was a stroke of genius, although putting the scroll wheel there isn't my ideal choice.
In terms of control layout, the Microsoft IntelliMouse Trackball (http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/vine/annex/x03-09209/0.jpg) is my favourite choice, but that's been discontinued for years, and I don't think that they ever did an optical version.
It really is a shame how few people are even willing to try a trackball. I actually have to keep a mouse plugged in to my work PC for guests to use.
Cheerful backstabbing optimists tend to sleaze and buck-pass their way up the corporate ladder. People who actually perform risk management are labelled overtly or covertly as nay-sayers. We need an article to explain this?
No they didn't. Find me one reference - other than the satirical Flat Earth Society - for that. If he can't even get his blurb right, what hope for his science?
As in: the project is neither complete nor shitcanned. Small earthquake, not many killed, no news to report.
You know, I'm beginning to think that this inability of submitters or editors to actually read or comprehend the articles that they link to is deliberate. ZOMG, we're being trolled!
I demand that you provide more details of this revolutionary software product so that I may purchase 10,000 copies forthwith.
Lesson to Slashdot advertisers: why buy an ad, when you can just keep submitting stories about some blog entry that promotes your product until eventually one of them sticks?
And I wasn't even drinking milk at the time. This is being posted on Slashdot, where the "editors" don't know the basic rules of grammer, and often don't even read the submissions before posting them, let alone the articles they link to? That, my dear chums, is priceless.
Anyone who thinks that a mass market, big budget Ender's Game will turn out to be anything other than Pirates of the Space Caribbean: The Enemy's Gate is Down starring a bunch of 20-something "teen" actors culled from whatever the hell it is that kids are watching on TV these days, has no idea how Hollywood, and particularly the distribution chain, works.
It's because I understand how they work that I'm concerned, on behalf of those who don't. Apparently you didn't bother to read the article very thoroughly. Did you spot the part about testing the screen while it's still in bits?
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Last time I checked, the DHS doesn't work for the Legislature. Their job begins and ends with enforcing the existing laws.
So, let me try and get this straight. I can't sell my current player on eBay with pre-loaded tracks, but I can buy a new one from Amazon with pre-loaded tracks? OK, fine, what happens when I want to sell the Amazon one? Can I sell it with those pre-loaded tracks (and only those, and how do I know several years down the line which ones were pre-loaded) or do I have to strip them off as well? Can I copy them off and back them up? If the device dies and needs a hardware replacement, can (and will) Amazon pre-load the new hardware with the same tracks, or do I have to pay for them again? Will my insurance cover the cost of replacing these tracks (and any others that I've downloaded) as well as the device if it's broken or stolen, and even if does in theory, how can I prove that they were actually still on the device when it was lost?
It's a bit rich for music megacorps to demand that we respect copyright law when an informed and educated person can't in all honesty figure out what the law is, or specifically how it applies in cases like these.
No, it'd be like bringing a copying machine to an art exhibition. :P
By your own figures, 6 a month ("more than five") is $5.23, and you seem to have forgotten to include packaging and handling costs. Even without those, that's a very significant proportion of a $10 gross. In fact, you've actually convinced me that the referenced statement is more likely to be true than false.
If only there were some way that you could provide references for that claim in an easy to follow manner. Dammit, I've got to think!
Highly recommended. Having the primary buttons under your thumb was a stroke of genius, although putting the scroll wheel there isn't my ideal choice.
In terms of control layout, the Microsoft IntelliMouse Trackball (http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/vine/annex/x03-09209/0.jpg ) is my favourite choice, but that's been discontinued for years, and I don't think that they ever did an optical version.
It really is a shame how few people are even willing to try a trackball. I actually have to keep a mouse plugged in to my work PC for guests to use.
1. Lift trackball. 2. Place large blob of Blu-Tack on desk. 3. Rotate trackball 90 degrees. 4. Lower trackball into Blu-Tack.
Cheerful backstabbing optimists tend to sleaze and buck-pass their way up the corporate ladder. People who actually perform risk management are labelled overtly or covertly as nay-sayers. We need an article to explain this?
No they didn't. Find me one reference - other than the satirical Flat Earth Society - for that. If he can't even get his blurb right, what hope for his science?
You know, I'm beginning to think that this inability of submitters or editors to actually read or comprehend the articles that they link to is deliberate. ZOMG, we're being trolled!
I demand that you provide more details of this revolutionary software product so that I may purchase 10,000 copies forthwith.
Lesson to Slashdot advertisers: why buy an ad, when you can just keep submitting stories about some blog entry that promotes your product until eventually one of them sticks?
Not many killed.
A genuine 4 digit UID wouldn't have any idea what the sky looked like.
Tell them that you've got a bad case of the Poo' Lil' Me Sniffles.
If you read an article claiming that the sky is blue, you should look out the window to check.
And I wasn't even drinking milk at the time. This is being posted on Slashdot, where the "editors" don't know the basic rules of grammer, and often don't even read the submissions before posting them, let alone the articles they link to? That, my dear chums, is priceless.
Still, you've made your point very well.
Now do you see the folly of driving huge SUVs?
Wait - I thought it was all about the poor starving artists. Now I'm all CONFUDDLED.
Anyone who thinks that a mass market, big budget Ender's Game will turn out to be anything other than Pirates of the Space Caribbean: The Enemy's Gate is Down starring a bunch of 20-something "teen" actors culled from whatever the hell it is that kids are watching on TV these days, has no idea how Hollywood, and particularly the distribution chain, works.
What's an "interface"? Is that like a different coloured slot for my punch-cards?
And yet you don't know the difference between "its" and "it's"? Remind me, what's your "job" again?
You sure have.
It's because I understand how they work that I'm concerned, on behalf of those who don't. Apparently you didn't bother to read the article very thoroughly. Did you spot the part about testing the screen while it's still in bits?
Got a primary source reference for that? The Marie Antoinette part, not your furry friends.