And how many had to record it on a dvr only to find out that the movie went 5 minutes past what all schedules published for the movie. My tivo missed the end and I had to download it off the net and view the end on my PC.
Personally I consider it fair use if I already have a copy of the content I obtained legaly but I'm using the internet to get it in a different format instead of paying for utilities to do it I just basically leech off someone elses work.
Course back in the real napster days I had a lot of cd's of mine stolen so I used napster to restore my muisc collection. Subsequently the drive carrying all that music died a year later. Which lacking napster I just quit buying cd's.
And a warning to the MPAA and RIAA in the last few years I have severly cut back my cd/dvd purchases. You have put out nothing but crap lately. Hell last night I made the mistake of renting that damn steve zizou life aquatic movie. If there was any part of that that was interesting it must of been after the first 45 minutes I suffered and gave up on it being anything..
I guess if I want to be entertained I'll just pirate your movie trailers. All the good parts are usually in there anyways.
From a investor standpoint unless MEO will release shortly or during a theatrical release of the Hobbit I doubt it's going to gain much following.
DND Online better be damn perfect or the players will go back to paper.
The expansion pack of AC2 has not sold any copies at best buy they've been sitting there doing nothing. And server pop's are still in the 200's and from a players perspective when I did play if you was not already level 55+ then you have nobody to play with. The game was stupid to make things where high level char's could not really help lower level characters so there's no incentive to help people.
Waste of money IMO. People that were burned by Turbine will not go back.
If the device cannot land like a plane it has no hopes of recovering anything from space.
Still has to survive re-entry so losing the ability to land like a plane is a great loss. While it makes it possible to land anywhere I dont believe our money is best put to use in this fashion.
If your profitabilty hinges on paying a relatively small fee to Redhat then I think your company has far larger problems than what OS your servers function on.
You will not get all the features of a Media Center PC and will be forced to get one to get the good features. Sorry storing music does not do that. I've got a small Linspire box that shares all my mp3's out to a number of devices out of the box. This Xenon will only work with what MS wants it to work with. I doubt they'll support UPNP devices.
And my MythDVD box I'm building is far far more interesting I believe. With it I have all my videos up to view from any PC that can run the frontend.
As long as the rankings are fair and handled in a responsible matter then Google stands to give consumers the power that they have lacked for a long time. Companies will take note that if their trust ranking suffers from bad consumer reports then they will begin to pay attention.
Maybe when you search for DSL you'll see companies at the top that deserve that ranking and the companies that fall down who think they should be first would improve how they treat their customers.
me and another friend who happen to be in the same gaming clan have both experienced credit card fruad after buying from tiger direct. I never told anyone in the clan about what I had done to me but one day he mentioned it happened after buying from Tiger Direct 3 years later. Cant be coincidence, someone over there is stealing CC #'s from the customers.
Agreed, can you see Microsoft stealing any and every idea from Linux and patenting things that nobody bothered to Patent.
Also this would be bad for software development as companies would be forced to submit thousands of patent ideas before actually building the product and if they decide against the product nobody else could do it because they'd have to pay the patent holder.
I think MS is looking at not meeting profit forcasts finally and pushing out software early so they can get a boost to their cashflow early so they meet 2nd quater forectasts is entirely possible. The company's stock has been flat for so long it's just a matter of time before their profits go flat or begin to decline.
Linspire 5.0 installs as root just like any Linux OS but informs you to create users after setup.
I wish that would quit popping up every time Linspire turns a corner.
Ubuntu is a good example of the right way to do things I think. Root's there but you have to look up how to do it. However Linspire seems to have more things working for it. Unbuntu cant suspend on some machines, Linspire can, Unbuntu cant see my broadcom wireless card and getting my prism54 card going was tricky but in both cases Linspire worked just fine with either card. Still I like to see where ubuntu goes in a few years. Debian definately needs a kick in the arse and looks like ubuntu will do it.
China stands to become the next superpower through stealing technology and what are we going to do about it. We have already sold ourselves to the devil with all this debt so if we complain China has the power to sink our economy into the ground and they can walk away laughing.
I dont believe there are alternative methods of recovering FICA or SS taxes from these guys. I do however believe if they're not paying into the SS system then they will never receive benefits from it.
As long as they're paying income taxes fairly I could care less. I doubt they'll ever be a burden on SS or Medicare.
I've replaced all my 100 watt bulbs with 13watt flourscent bulbs and I've noticed a difference on my power bill.
I have also rebuilt all my pc's with processors that can run in Cool-n-Quiet modes (XPC's) and such and I noticed another break on my power bill. In the case of PC's you dont need more wattage you need quality power supplies.
What about the money congress put aside to fix it.
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There was money included in NASA's budget for FY 2004 or 5 that was specifcally for fixing Hubble.
Has nasa become such a group of pussies they are too chickenshit to even try now. We lost men going to the moon but we went anyway no different in putting up the space stations or fixing the hubble.
Hubble has one advantage that all of our other fixed telescopes and that is a great deal more mobility.
They could at least put a booster rocket on it and put it into a storage orbit until we can fix it.
I may have the wrong number but I believe it's the 5th amendment that is supposed to protect you from self incrimination. Given I hate people that do not carry insurance but Rights are Rights. And before you pull that privelage crap if you give up one right for the privelage of driving what would be next. You cant carry a gun in your car if driving on a public street or something equally assinine.
I'm sorry but why are people and business who have for the last 10 years been using Explorer to manage files on pc's and networks suddenly going to embrace a completely different method that is unfamiliar and will reduce productivity at all levels until the user becomes savvy enough to use it.
No screenshot of this "New OS" has yet to impress me. Maybe it gets it's hype because "New OS" = boost in hardware sales. But you know what. When the majority of your hardware sales are sub 500 pc's you're not going to make up any profits on the early adopters who buy the bigger and faster machines.
What have we gotten with every new version of Windows.
Software quits working
Have to buy new versions of antivirus and other utilities in many cases to get full functionality and also see above.
Waiting on hardware to get "New Seals of MS Approval" which IMO is silly because that WHQL crap never stopped Nvidia drivers from causing the nv4_disp.dll BDS's.
Oh and this "New OS" that was supposed to run on pc's that were wildly faster (10Ghz) machines. Where are those new machines??
Longhorn is a shell of the promises that were made, it most likely incorporates code from XP/NT4 base so will incorporate security holes and bugs and probably new avenues of attack. It's just plain ugly, and probably will be slow at best on existing equipment.
If you're looking for a new OS you may be better off with OS X on a PPC, or Linux on x86.
Back during the tech boom companies tried to do the convergence thing and it did not work. I just dont see the need for your mobile phone to play music. What use is your phone if the battery is dead from playing music when you need to make a call.
Wireless power in many instances is easy but low powered. What the focus needs to be on is superconducting materials that enable us to make devices that require minimal power to function.
Imagine a watch that took your body heat and with the right chips in the watch would convert that heat and power/charge the watch.
The same could be said for any number of ways to get power somewhere. If things were ultra low powered then fiber optics could be used to power devices.
That is also a reason I think seti faces a problem. Modern civilizations may be using superconductor tech that gives them virtually no ELM footprint past their local region of space. If we do find something more likely that signal will fade and eventually dissapear over time.
Our company will let go any contractor that is not hired within 6 months and that is a rule of HR though sometimes people slip through the cracks I've seen it enforced.
To those that disagree many contract companies will pay you no benefits and they are not required to disclose any of the details of what they get for your work before you are paid. For all you know is that the company could be charging 45 a hour for your work but paying you 20 a hour claiming the extra 25 a hours is for health, vacation and all that but not providing it to you.
And where I have worked contractors are treated like second class employees, they're not invited to employee functions and other team building events which I disagree with as it hurts the group as a whole making your contractors feel like insiders. Companies that promote these actions should be compelled to invite their contractors to functions. You may end up with more satisfied workers as a whole.
As we have all seen information is a commodity that is traded and sold and in some cases stolen to be used in the financial system. This information could be your credit report or medical history. Most of us know about how certain diseases can be detected in DNA. Imagine if your DNA was sampled in a investigation today and 10 years from now you applied for life insurance but was denied due to evidence that you are succeptable to parkinsons or some other genetic disease.
Kinda reminds me of that one movie where the guy could not go into space or something becuase he was not genetically perfect.
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And how many had to record it on a dvr only to find out that the movie went 5 minutes past what all schedules published for the movie. My tivo missed the end and I had to download it off the net and view the end on my PC.
Personally I consider it fair use if I already have a copy of the content I obtained legaly but I'm using the internet to get it in a different format instead of paying for utilities to do it I just basically leech off someone elses work.
Course back in the real napster days I had a lot of cd's of mine stolen so I used napster to restore my muisc collection. Subsequently the drive carrying all that music died a year later. Which lacking napster I just quit buying cd's.
And a warning to the MPAA and RIAA in the last few years I have severly cut back my cd/dvd purchases. You have put out nothing but crap lately. Hell last night I made the mistake of renting that damn steve zizou life aquatic movie. If there was any part of that that was interesting it must of been after the first 45 minutes I suffered and gave up on it being anything..
I guess if I want to be entertained I'll just pirate your movie trailers. All the good parts are usually in there anyways.
Really funny that they would think someone would want to pirate a crippled OS.
From a investor standpoint unless MEO will release shortly or during a theatrical release of the Hobbit I doubt it's going to gain much following.
DND Online better be damn perfect or the players will go back to paper.
The expansion pack of AC2 has not sold any copies at best buy they've been sitting there doing nothing. And server pop's are still in the 200's and from a players perspective when I did play if you was not already level 55+ then you have nobody to play with. The game was stupid to make things where high level char's could not really help lower level characters so there's no incentive to help people.
Waste of money IMO. People that were burned by Turbine will not go back.
If the device cannot land like a plane it has no hopes of recovering anything from space.
Still has to survive re-entry so losing the ability to land like a plane is a great loss. While it makes it possible to land anywhere I dont believe our money is best put to use in this fashion.
If your profitabilty hinges on paying a relatively small fee to Redhat then I think your company has far larger problems than what OS your servers function on.
You will not get all the features of a Media Center PC and will be forced to get one to get the good features. Sorry storing music does not do that. I've got a small Linspire box that shares all my mp3's out to a number of devices out of the box. This Xenon will only work with what MS wants it to work with. I doubt they'll support UPNP devices.
And my MythDVD box I'm building is far far more interesting I believe. With it I have all my videos up to view from any PC that can run the frontend.
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As long as the rankings are fair and handled in a responsible matter then Google stands to give consumers the power that they have lacked for a long time. Companies will take note that if their trust ranking suffers from bad consumer reports then they will begin to pay attention.
Maybe when you search for DSL you'll see companies at the top that deserve that ranking and the companies that fall down who think they should be first would improve how they treat their customers.
Peer pressure at it's finest.
me and another friend who happen to be in the same gaming clan have both experienced credit card fruad after buying from tiger direct. I never told anyone in the clan about what I had done to me but one day he mentioned it happened after buying from Tiger Direct 3 years later. Cant be coincidence, someone over there is stealing CC #'s from the customers.
I have never shopped there since.
DDO will fail miserably.. It's built on the Ac2 engine. Hell they have even recycled textures.
Agreed, can you see Microsoft stealing any and every idea from Linux and patenting things that nobody bothered to Patent.
Also this would be bad for software development as companies would be forced to submit thousands of patent ideas before actually building the product and if they decide against the product nobody else could do it because they'd have to pay the patent holder.
The patent office would be snowballed instantly.
Patents should stay as First to Invent.
I think MS is looking at not meeting profit forcasts finally and pushing out software early so they can get a boost to their cashflow early so they meet 2nd quater forectasts is entirely possible. The company's stock has been flat for so long it's just a matter of time before their profits go flat or begin to decline.
Linspire 5.0 installs as root just like any Linux OS but informs you to create users after setup.
I wish that would quit popping up every time Linspire turns a corner.
Ubuntu is a good example of the right way to do things I think. Root's there but you have to look up how to do it. However Linspire seems to have more things working for it. Unbuntu cant suspend on some machines, Linspire can, Unbuntu cant see my broadcom wireless card and getting my prism54 card going was tricky but in both cases Linspire worked just fine with either card. Still I like to see where ubuntu goes in a few years. Debian definately needs a kick in the arse and looks like ubuntu will do it.
China stands to become the next superpower through stealing technology and what are we going to do about it. We have already sold ourselves to the devil with all this debt so if we complain China has the power to sink our economy into the ground and they can walk away laughing.
I dont believe there are alternative methods of recovering FICA or SS taxes from these guys. I do however believe if they're not paying into the SS system then they will never receive benefits from it.
As long as they're paying income taxes fairly I could care less. I doubt they'll ever be a burden on SS or Medicare.
I've replaced all my 100 watt bulbs with 13watt flourscent bulbs and I've noticed a difference on my power bill.
I have also rebuilt all my pc's with processors that can run in Cool-n-Quiet modes (XPC's) and such and I noticed another break on my power bill. In the case of PC's you dont need more wattage you need quality power supplies.
There was money included in NASA's budget for FY 2004 or 5 that was specifcally for fixing Hubble.
Has nasa become such a group of pussies they are too chickenshit to even try now. We lost men going to the moon but we went anyway no different in putting up the space stations or fixing the hubble.
Hubble has one advantage that all of our other fixed telescopes and that is a great deal more mobility.
They could at least put a booster rocket on it and put it into a storage orbit until we can fix it.
I may have the wrong number but I believe it's the 5th amendment that is supposed to protect you from self incrimination. Given I hate people that do not carry insurance but Rights are Rights. And before you pull that privelage crap if you give up one right for the privelage of driving what would be next. You cant carry a gun in your car if driving on a public street or something equally assinine.
Sorry sir we cannot provide this mortgage because you do not have the required education requirements that our lender has approved.
Worse is that it would be legal.
So a person with a PHD in Astrophysics would get a 5% credit card and someone with just a BA in the same field would get 15%.
I'm sorry but why are people and business who have for the last 10 years been using Explorer to manage files on pc's and networks suddenly going to embrace a completely different method that is unfamiliar and will reduce productivity at all levels until the user becomes savvy enough to use it.
No screenshot of this "New OS" has yet to impress me. Maybe it gets it's hype because "New OS" = boost in hardware sales. But you know what. When the majority of your hardware sales are sub 500 pc's you're not going to make up any profits on the early adopters who buy the bigger and faster machines.
What have we gotten with every new version of Windows.
Software quits working
Have to buy new versions of antivirus and other utilities in many cases to get full functionality and also see above.
Waiting on hardware to get "New Seals of MS Approval" which IMO is silly because that WHQL crap never stopped Nvidia drivers from causing the nv4_disp.dll BDS's.
Oh and this "New OS" that was supposed to run on pc's that were wildly faster (10Ghz) machines. Where are those new machines??
Longhorn is a shell of the promises that were made, it most likely incorporates code from XP/NT4 base so will incorporate security holes and bugs and probably new avenues of attack. It's just plain ugly, and probably will be slow at best on existing equipment.
If you're looking for a new OS you may be better off with OS X on a PPC, or Linux on x86.
Back during the tech boom companies tried to do the convergence thing and it did not work. I just dont see the need for your mobile phone to play music. What use is your phone if the battery is dead from playing music when you need to make a call.
Wireless power in many instances is easy but low powered. What the focus needs to be on is superconducting materials that enable us to make devices that require minimal power to function.
Imagine a watch that took your body heat and with the right chips in the watch would convert that heat and power/charge the watch.
The same could be said for any number of ways to get power somewhere. If things were ultra low powered then fiber optics could be used to power devices.
That is also a reason I think seti faces a problem. Modern civilizations may be using superconductor tech that gives them virtually no ELM footprint past their local region of space. If we do find something more likely that signal will fade and eventually dissapear over time.
Our company will let go any contractor that is not hired within 6 months and that is a rule of HR though sometimes people slip through the cracks I've seen it enforced.
To those that disagree many contract companies will pay you no benefits and they are not required to disclose any of the details of what they get for your work before you are paid. For all you know is that the company could be charging 45 a hour for your work but paying you 20 a hour claiming the extra 25 a hours is for health, vacation and all that but not providing it to you.
And where I have worked contractors are treated like second class employees, they're not invited to employee functions and other team building events which I disagree with as it hurts the group as a whole making your contractors feel like insiders. Companies that promote these actions should be compelled to invite their contractors to functions. You may end up with more satisfied workers as a whole.
As we have all seen information is a commodity that is traded and sold and in some cases stolen to be used in the financial system. This information could be your credit report or medical history. Most of us know about how certain diseases can be detected in DNA. Imagine if your DNA was sampled in a investigation today and 10 years from now you applied for life insurance but was denied due to evidence that you are succeptable to parkinsons or some other genetic disease.
Kinda reminds me of that one movie where the guy could not go into space or something becuase he was not genetically perfect.
I agree, they did this in the Army in addition to our normal teeth xray.
I wonder how one would find out if this information still existed and why.