A2: It is an overly ostentatious piece of engineering that would not be welcome in Paris. Even when they gave it to America the Americans immeadiately put it in the sea and it failed to sink.
Honest answer: is that it was a commision that was destined for America before it was built.
shouldn't cost more than $2 for a bottle of that new Calvin Klein
You really pay that much? I live in Thailand and can get you some for 3 cents/c.c. You see, your arguement is BS because the market is fake. Here, because there is a strong market in copied products you can get genuine DVDs for $3 (120 baht for say 'Kill Bill 2'). They lower the price to a more reasonable level so that people will see the better quality (not seeing someone get up and walk across the screen) as worth the cost. The MPAA etc. are just trying to keep your bogus market going so that they can continue to screw you.
Maybe those that understood the question and knew the answer did not have to think about it and those that did not understand the question or know the answer had to think a lot in order to try and get an answer, albiet wrong.
I would like to volunteer for your research. Maybe we can get a grant to do more research into the culmulative factors like 'the simultaneous effects of drugs and marijuana om the IQ' or does reading e-mail during sex while smoking marijuana lower your IQ or just cause fires?'... The research posibilities are endless and just as meaningful as this first round of research.
Are you trying to provoke our unfortunate friends over the pond who might find it hard to accept that the French have got it right where they made a right royal FU?
Then it is likely that you live in the US, but most of us in the rest of the world cannot understand why we have to wait for an irrelevant piece of foreign infomation to finish. Even worse though is when they do the international bit and force us to watch 8 irrelevant bits of information and maybe get the right one for our country included. It is all rubbish, we know it, we have read it before and having to sit through it each time we watch a DVD does not make us know any more about it.
If I can skip adverts and copyright notices then I will be happy. Somehow I doubt that I will be happy:( Here in Thailand you can buy legit DVD that just start straight into the movie, trouble is they are in Thai language. They are such a great idea but for some reason no one does them in English:( Even the copied DVDs do not do this. You can get VCDs that do this in English but the quality is rubbish and you have to change disks in the middle. I will master the art of ripping them soon so that I can copy mine and make them auto start into the movie with 5.1 sound in English.
Regardless of your obscure views of paedophiles this guy was employed to protect her from people like himself. He is a fraud. Parents use AOL because they advertise the child protection angle. OK, I think that AOL is rubbish but this guy was abusing his position in order to get payed a salary to do what he was getting paid to prevent.
I have XP in various stages here, some with SP2 and some without. It is so much work to install SP2 and get it to work 'better' than SP1 that I have to wait until I have plenty of spare time before I start. I still prefer 2000 pro which is on the server (or Linux on my machine but the users do not want that) and I keep trying to talk people into downgrading to 2000. I am sure that by the time that XP gets as reliable as 2000 I will have succeeded and they will all say 'I thought you wanted us to go to 2000?'.
Strange and completely untrue. I find the cost of using Linux is higher because if I used Windows I would get all the software I want by just borrowing a copy from work. It is because I use Linux that I have to buy so much as I cannot grab a copy. I do not mind paying a small amount for something which is stable and better even though I am surrounded all day by all the disks I need to run the latest flavour of Windows. I always buy a copy of the latest SuSE professional etc and I own lots of Linux games as well as several small programmes that I had to pay for.
In response to the article, I do not think that Linux should want to 'kill' Windows, it is choice that is the best option and Windows is one of the choices. I want Linux, Apple and Windows to do well as I think that there should be as much choice as possible for the consumer.
P2P etc are not a reason for the ISP to disconnect but if the ISP does nothing about trojans their service is cut because people like this site,/., will block whole blocks of IP addresses if that block is attacking them. I was cut off in this manner because someone on my ISP had a trojan that was attacking/. So the ISP gets blocked and the customers get unhappy and say things like 'do something now or I go elsewhere'. They must do something to protect their business.
I pay for unlimited use and do not want that unlimited use disturbed by morons that cannot keep their machines clean. I am also downloading some of the latest Linux goodies on P2P.
Recent brilliant idea to promote our empire, fund a startup company making a cut down and almost useless version of Linux which makes our product look brilliant in comparison.
I am a self confessed downloader and unashamed. If I think that someone I like has brought out a new album that I might want to buy, I will download it if I can, first, to see if it is worth buying. I will not buy something blindly. If I do like an album I will want to buy the actual product and my collection is of CDs and not MP3s but I listen to MP3s to find out what I like. My main problem is that most of what I like is not mainstream and is therefore hard to find. Especially when I like bands like 'The The' which all search engines refuse to search for because the word 'The' is ignored.
I am a self confessed downloader and unashamed. If I think that someone I like has brought out a new album that I might want to buy, I will download it if I can first to see if it is worth buying. I will not buy something blindly. If I do like an album I do want to buy the actual product and my collection is of CDs and not MP3s but I listen to MP3s to find out what I like. My main problem is that most of what I like is not mainstream and is therefore hard to find. Especially when I like bands like 'The The' which all search engines refuse to search for because the word 'The' is ignored.
They cannot win. They are fighting in a little corner that they think is the known universe and they think that they can have an effect. The real world is a very big place and the **AA can only hold sway over 250,000,000. It sounds a big number but it is only a small proportion of the world at large and the files are out there in the world at large and US citizens will always be tempted by the easy access to them. Even with the help of their equivelents in sympathetic countries they cannot stop the tide. Most countries do not see it as an issue. They will say 'Oooh, yes, we will do what we can to help you', and then go on with business as usual. Do you honestly think that Russia, China (and the rest of Asia outside Japan), Africa and South America really care about US IP? They know that it makes good business sense to 'say' they do but do they?
Vegemite is the girl's blouse version of Marmite, that British favourite:) Marmite have been running some really good ads about you either love it or you hate it. They had one in which a young couple went back to her place and he sat in front of the TV and she went to make the coffee or whatever. While she was there she had a marmite sandwich. She goes back to the TV and he sticks his tongue down her throat and then starts vomiting. Then the slogan 'you either love it or you hate it' comes up.
Now they have a new campaign that has got them into trouble with this.
I used to like paying for things in Royal Bank of Scotland one pound notes as everyone thinks that the pound note is no longer legal tender while it is only the English pound note that is no longer legal tender. The Bank of Scotland 100 pound notes are not legal tender south of the border though. so do not try them.
As already said, WOL does start a machine that is turned off. I have one machine (out of 10) that starts up whenever it feels like because the WOL has got a mind of its own. It is supposed to only wake up when asked but it comes on at random times just because it feels like it. The others come on when requested. So you could tell the users to turn off their PCs at the end of the day and they do not even need to know that they are being used during the night.
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but can I buy Zeta Jones' functions?
[It's not like the MPAA would stop selling DVD's in France...]
Err, no but they may only include the French dubbed soundtrack...
A2: It is an overly ostentatious piece of engineering that would not be welcome in Paris. Even when they gave it to America the Americans immeadiately put it in the sea and it failed to sink.
Honest answer: is that it was a commision that was destined for America before it was built.
shouldn't cost more than $2 for a bottle of that new Calvin Klein
You really pay that much? I live in Thailand and can get you some for 3 cents/c.c. You see, your arguement is BS because the market is fake. Here, because there is a strong market in copied products you can get genuine DVDs for $3 (120 baht for say 'Kill Bill 2'). They lower the price to a more reasonable level so that people will see the better quality (not seeing someone get up and walk across the screen) as worth the cost. The MPAA etc. are just trying to keep your bogus market going so that they can continue to screw you.
I am far more surprised at how cheap it is to buy a NY cop. I though the price would be in thousands, not hundreds.
each day at work ... I normally recover in time to go home without any ill effects and do not require the smell of rotting eggs.
Those who are "lazy and smart" have no excuses.
I am smart enough to come up with an endless supply of excuses for being lazy.
Those with the wrong anwser had more activity.
Maybe those that understood the question and knew the answer did not have to think about it and those that did not understand the question or know the answer had to think a lot in order to try and get an answer, albiet wrong.
Next up we will see how sex lower people's IQ
I would like to volunteer for your research. Maybe we can get a grant to do more research into the culmulative factors like 'the simultaneous effects of drugs and marijuana om the IQ' or does reading e-mail during sex while smoking marijuana lower your IQ or just cause fires?'... The research posibilities are endless and just as meaningful as this first round of research.
Are you trying to provoke our unfortunate friends over the pond who might find it hard to accept that the French have got it right where they made a right royal FU?
I can understand the FBI warning,
Then it is likely that you live in the US, but most of us in the rest of the world cannot understand why we have to wait for an irrelevant piece of foreign infomation to finish. Even worse though is when they do the international bit and force us to watch 8 irrelevant bits of information and maybe get the right one for our country included. It is all rubbish, we know it, we have read it before and having to sit through it each time we watch a DVD does not make us know any more about it.
If I can skip adverts and copyright notices then I will be happy. Somehow I doubt that I will be happy :( Here in Thailand you can buy legit DVD that just start straight into the movie, trouble is they are in Thai language. They are such a great idea but for some reason no one does them in English :( Even the copied DVDs do not do this. You can get VCDs that do this in English but the quality is rubbish and you have to change disks in the middle. I will master the art of ripping them soon so that I can copy mine and make them auto start into the movie with 5.1 sound in English.
Regardless of your obscure views of paedophiles this guy was employed to protect her from people like himself. He is a fraud. Parents use AOL because they advertise the child protection angle. OK, I think that AOL is rubbish but this guy was abusing his position in order to get payed a salary to do what he was getting paid to prevent.
I have XP in various stages here, some with SP2 and some without. It is so much work to install SP2 and get it to work 'better' than SP1 that I have to wait until I have plenty of spare time before I start. I still prefer 2000 pro which is on the server (or Linux on my machine but the users do not want that) and I keep trying to talk people into downgrading to 2000. I am sure that by the time that XP gets as reliable as 2000 I will have succeeded and they will all say 'I thought you wanted us to go to 2000?'.
Strange and completely untrue. I find the cost of using Linux is higher because if I used Windows I would get all the software I want by just borrowing a copy from work. It is because I use Linux that I have to buy so much as I cannot grab a copy. I do not mind paying a small amount for something which is stable and better even though I am surrounded all day by all the disks I need to run the latest flavour of Windows. I always buy a copy of the latest SuSE professional etc and I own lots of Linux games as well as several small programmes that I had to pay for.
In response to the article, I do not think that Linux should want to 'kill' Windows, it is choice that is the best option and Windows is one of the choices. I want Linux, Apple and Windows to do well as I think that there should be as much choice as possible for the consumer.
P2P etc are not a reason for the ISP to disconnect but if the ISP does nothing about trojans their service is cut because people like this site, /., will block whole blocks of IP addresses if that block is attacking them. I was cut off in this manner because someone on my ISP had a trojan that was attacking /. So the ISP gets blocked and the customers get unhappy and say things like 'do something now or I go elsewhere'. They must do something to protect their business.
I pay for unlimited use and do not want that unlimited use disturbed by morons that cannot keep their machines clean. I am also downloading some of the latest Linux goodies on P2P.
Memo
To : Billy Goat
Re : Advertising venture
Recent brilliant idea to promote our empire, fund a startup company making a cut down and almost useless version of Linux which makes our product look brilliant in comparison.
P.S. We already have copyright on this technique.
I am a self confessed downloader and unashamed. If I think that someone I like has brought out a new album that I might want to buy, I will download it if I can, first, to see if it is worth buying. I will not buy something blindly. If I do like an album I will want to buy the actual product and my collection is of CDs and not MP3s but I listen to MP3s to find out what I like. My main problem is that most of what I like is not mainstream and is therefore hard to find. Especially when I like bands like 'The The' which all search engines refuse to search for because the word 'The' is ignored.
I am a self confessed downloader and unashamed. If I think that someone I like has brought out a new album that I might want to buy, I will download it if I can first to see if it is worth buying. I will not buy something blindly. If I do like an album I do want to buy the actual product and my collection is of CDs and not MP3s but I listen to MP3s to find out what I like. My main problem is that most of what I like is not mainstream and is therefore hard to find. Especially when I like bands like 'The The' which all search engines refuse to search for because the word 'The' is ignored.
They cannot win. They are fighting in a little corner that they think is the known universe and they think that they can have an effect. The real world is a very big place and the **AA can only hold sway over 250,000,000. It sounds a big number but it is only a small proportion of the world at large and the files are out there in the world at large and US citizens will always be tempted by the easy access to them. Even with the help of their equivelents in sympathetic countries they cannot stop the tide. Most countries do not see it as an issue. They will say 'Oooh, yes, we will do what we can to help you', and then go on with business as usual. Do you honestly think that Russia, China (and the rest of Asia outside Japan), Africa and South America really care about US IP? They know that it makes good business sense to 'say' they do but do they?
Such a crippled version will make Linux look more attractive in comparison.
Vegemite is the girl's blouse version of Marmite, that British favourite :) Marmite have been running some really good ads about you either love it or you hate it. They had one in which a young couple went back to her place and he sat in front of the TV and she went to make the coffee or whatever. While she was there she had a marmite sandwich. She goes back to the TV and he sticks his tongue down her throat and then starts vomiting. Then the slogan 'you either love it or you hate it' comes up.
Now they have a new campaign that has got them into trouble with this.
Almost right :) You missed the bit that not even English or Ulster etc. are 'legal tender' in Scotland as there is no legal tender.
http://www.scotbanks.org.uk/notes.htm
Makes me not miss the old "Isaac Newton" quid
I used to like paying for things in Royal Bank of Scotland one pound notes as everyone thinks that the pound note is no longer legal tender while it is only the English pound note that is no longer legal tender. The Bank of Scotland 100 pound notes are not legal tender south of the border though. so do not try them.
As already said, WOL does start a machine that is turned off. I have one machine (out of 10) that starts up whenever it feels like because the WOL has got a mind of its own. It is supposed to only wake up when asked but it comes on at random times just because it feels like it. The others come on when requested. So you could tell the users to turn off their PCs at the end of the day and they do not even need to know that they are being used during the night.