Please contact your local authorities ASAP for prosecution for your crimes. Also, you may need to bring a checkbook, because each of your downloaded files costed us $150,000 in lost revenue.
Online voting could totally redefine write-in candidates. In the past you were either psychotic, disillusioned, or mistaken in writing-in a candidate.
Now with the Internet you could have hundreds of thousands voting for retarted candidates like "Rocket J. Squirrel","Jack Black", and "George W. Bush"
Could this negate the party system? People typically voted for a Dem or GOP'er simply because they were the two names on the ballot that were at the top, but now people could organize real grassroots campaigns, skipping the primaries, and just promote themselves on message boards and other mediums (slashdot front page story, anybody?)
In all seriousness, national online voting could take the old political system and stand it on its head...I'd go for it just to see what happens.
Incidentally, it does, however, cover uses such as the Mac OS' Location Manager, which switches network-related settings according to the user's location. The patent extends that idea to cover other, more personal settings and data, that might depend on the user's location/identity, ie. the computer's owner as public individual and as company employee.
I think that this is really the point here. Apple's got a great implementation of multi-environment profiles and they want to protect that. Jobs himself said that WinXP got there first...It'd just be odd to retract and deny that.
Anybody remember when Apple patented "lighted" computer devices? Everybody was guesstimating that it meant your new iMac would, at the press of a key, turn into the center of a disco party for you and your friends. Mostly we are inaccurate, since we never know what's behind the doors at 1 Infinite Loop.
Finally, when contacted, Jeff Bezos said, "Been there, done that!"
Because when it comes to Kucinich we like our politics with YELLING!!!!!, at least it's more entertaining than other debates.....no, scratch that; it's far more entertaining to play drinking games during Bush debates. Take a swig every time he mispronounces a word or smirks!
You'd think that being Pro P2P is a great campaign strategy. There's something liek 52million people using P2P services right now that don't want them to go away.
A candidate that says "I want to protect your rights to steal!" could have the potential to be VERY popular. However, that only means that the *AA will throw a fucking oil tanker full of money at whoever runs against him just to keep Dean down.
Perhaps you don't remember him coming on national TV and apologizing to the entire nation for deceiving all of us, even though it didn't matter.
I'd just like to see Bush come out and say "I made a mistake, I take full responsibility and hereby resign the office of...." oopsm just slipped into a deja vu there:)
I realize they're talking about buying CDs and DVDs, but eventually they'll have to move it into Internet downloads like Apple's iTMS.
Obviously they're use some type of DRM (most likely developed by their A/V gurus at Nullsoft....Frankel'll love that one), but once an AOL user leaves the collective will they still get to take their music with them or will they require AOL for the rest of their adult life?
That it, until they lose another $99,000,000,000 this year and are forced out of business:)
And now that it's legal to show your own ads over another website what's to prevent AOL from popping up a window and saying:
Whoa! Where do you think you're going? Click here to buy music from AOL!
I think that AOL is a bigger competitor to Apple's iTMS than Microsoft's new stuff. While Microsoft always tends to include "cool" new features in each successive release of Windows that doesn't mean that people will use it. Also, if they push it through the OS then I'd jump on it with the Sherman Antitrust Act in a heartbeat.
AOL users are already used to getting features incrementally, but I get the feeling with its userbase that ACTIVELY uses the features they include they could have great success with this service.
I say bring 'em on; just like in the Brick 'n Mortar world there should be multiple CD stores on the Internet
One day Iraq has its finger on the button and the next the mass graves that we found were our whole reason for going in...Duh! Taking Saddam out is a good thing, NOBODY can dispute that, but the minute that the massive hard-on Bush had (The state of the Union) turns out to be flawed what does he do but turn coat and say "We did a good thing! Other people were wrong! Not me!....Bush/Cheney 2004"
Whatever happened to "The buck stops here?" At least Clinton took full responsibilities for his actions. And that reminds me: why did we have to spend literally millions of dollars to investigate the private lives of our most recent President for actions that affected 1)Him, 2)Hillary, 3) His family, and 4)Monica? Republicans beat the drums of impeachment when he lied under oath about an affair and now they say "There's no reason to question Bush!"
Remember in the back story of the Empire in Star Wars? Palpatine was elected to power and then used a catastrophic event to take on "war powers" The minute he got those powers he would never give them away and with a federal government in the pocket of the GOP and oversight a thing of the past I really hope that our current president gets a fucking sack of balls and at least gets his buddies behind an impartial and bipartisan investigation of the entire Iraqi conflict and the evidence for it or just resign.
"Bring 'em on?????" No, you get your ass in the desert and out of your little AIDS/abstinence educational trip to Africa (here's a good idea! blackmail the countries into teaching abstinence! "Don't have sex! Here's a Bible, you savages!")
You may remember a while back that the record labels were considering adding their own "tax" of sorts onto used CD salse to discourage retailers from selling them.
They are thinking along the exact same lines as you are, except that they can't "tax" used CD sales that a customer sells to the store. That's just retarted!
Apple store openings are creepy! I went to the Knox Street opening in Highland Park, Texas and was probably one of the forst 50 inside the store. At lease I had a girlfriend there with me, though, so the geek factor went down by 20%
Anyway, when you're giling in there after they open the doors all the employees are cheering, clapping their hands and yelling a lot. I don't like being a frigging rock star when I walk into a store. My girlfriend walked to the back of the store, turned around, and as we walked out we got our free shirts.
There was nothing special about the store. I'd come back many times over the successive months, but all the stuff there was just as easy to see at my local CompUSA 10 minutes away from my apartment.
Well, to be fair Gator and its ilk usually gets installed in the background as part of some other operation that the user is involved in. I really do doubt that many users go to the gator site and say to themself "Self! This program will change how I use the Internet! Why doesn't everybody have this program!"
It comes in the background with KaZaa or some other P2P shit or even on those nefarious websites that download software by praying on the "click OK" instinct that everybody has on the Internet
I ain't going to pay this any attention until the sex industry gets into it. Literally they have pioneered almost every semi-advanced technology on the interweb this is just going to be the next thing they do....hopefully....
It could at least make HotOrNot more interesting.....
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Please contact your local authorities ASAP for prosecution for your crimes. Also, you may need to bring a checkbook, because each of your downloaded files costed us $150,000 in lost revenue.
You are going to buy the CD? Not now!
(swoops up cape and runs away, cackling madly)
Online voting could totally redefine write-in candidates. In the past you were either psychotic, disillusioned, or mistaken in writing-in a candidate.
Now with the Internet you could have hundreds of thousands voting for retarted candidates like "Rocket J. Squirrel","Jack Black", and "George W. Bush"
Could this negate the party system? People typically voted for a Dem or GOP'er simply because they were the two names on the ballot that were at the top, but now people could organize real grassroots campaigns, skipping the primaries, and just promote themselves on message boards and other mediums (slashdot front page story, anybody?)
In all seriousness, national online voting could take the old political system and stand it on its head...I'd go for it just to see what happens.
Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my pleasure to introduce the new supreme ruler of the United States: William Gates!
Gates:"....exxxxxcellllent....."
Ok, so it's pandering that this will get modded as funny, but I'm a whore for good karma!
Incidentally, it does, however, cover uses such as the Mac OS' Location Manager, which switches network-related settings according to the user's location. The patent extends that idea to cover other, more personal settings and data, that might depend on the user's location/identity, ie. the computer's owner as public individual and as company employee.
I think that this is really the point here. Apple's got a great implementation of multi-environment profiles and they want to protect that. Jobs himself said that WinXP got there first...It'd just be odd to retract and deny that.
Anybody remember when Apple patented "lighted" computer devices? Everybody was guesstimating that it meant your new iMac would, at the press of a key, turn into the center of a disco party for you and your friends. Mostly we are inaccurate, since we never know what's behind the doors at 1 Infinite Loop.
Finally, when contacted, Jeff Bezos said, "Been there, done that!"
If the RIAA gets paid to fuck the artists then can we bring them up on charges of prostitution?
iTMS uses AAC from Dolby.
Evil! Evil! Not MP3! Not OGG!
just kidding, I love and USE iTMS. Apple gets far too much of my money (looks at 3 day old 30GB iPod)
I'll bet my bag of chips that FOX already has something exactly like that in the works..."Temptation Internet" or "Wild on Blogs"
Actually, Kucinich voted against it too.
....no, scratch that; it's far more entertaining to play drinking games during Bush debates. Take a swig every time he mispronounces a word or smirks!
Because when it comes to Kucinich we like our politics with YELLING!!!!!, at least it's more entertaining than other debates.
You'd think that being Pro P2P is a great campaign strategy. There's something liek 52million people using P2P services right now that don't want them to go away.
A candidate that says "I want to protect your rights to steal!" could have the potential to be VERY popular. However, that only means that the *AA will throw a fucking oil tanker full of money at whoever runs against him just to keep Dean down.
The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
I couldn't resist!
In other news, DirecTV was knocked off the air permanently for unexplained reasons today.
Comcast, AOL/TW, and Cox all declined to comment.
Perhaps you don't remember him coming on national TV and apologizing to the entire nation for deceiving all of us, even though it didn't matter.
:)
I'd just like to see Bush come out and say "I made a mistake, I take full responsibility and hereby resign the office of...." oopsm just slipped into a deja vu there
I realize they're talking about buying CDs and DVDs, but eventually they'll have to move it into Internet downloads like Apple's iTMS.
:)
Obviously they're use some type of DRM (most likely developed by their A/V gurus at Nullsoft....Frankel'll love that one), but once an AOL user leaves the collective will they still get to take their music with them or will they require AOL for the rest of their adult life?
That it, until they lose another $99,000,000,000 this year and are forced out of business
And now that it's legal to show your own ads over another website what's to prevent AOL from popping up a window and saying:
Whoa! Where do you think you're going?
Click here to buy music from AOL!
I think that AOL is a bigger competitor to Apple's iTMS than Microsoft's new stuff. While Microsoft always tends to include "cool" new features in each successive release of Windows that doesn't mean that people will use it. Also, if they push it through the OS then I'd jump on it with the Sherman Antitrust Act in a heartbeat.
AOL users are already used to getting features incrementally, but I get the feeling with its userbase that ACTIVELY uses the features they include they could have great success with this service.
I say bring 'em on; just like in the Brick 'n Mortar world there should be multiple CD stores on the Internet
I totally agree with everything you said!
One day Iraq has its finger on the button and the next the mass graves that we found were our whole reason for going in...Duh! Taking Saddam out is a good thing, NOBODY can dispute that, but the minute that the massive hard-on Bush had (The state of the Union) turns out to be flawed what does he do but turn coat and say "We did a good thing! Other people were wrong! Not me!....Bush/Cheney 2004"
Whatever happened to "The buck stops here?" At least Clinton took full responsibilities for his actions. And that reminds me: why did we have to spend literally millions of dollars to investigate the private lives of our most recent President for actions that affected 1)Him, 2)Hillary, 3) His family, and 4)Monica? Republicans beat the drums of impeachment when he lied under oath about an affair and now they say "There's no reason to question Bush!"
Remember in the back story of the Empire in Star Wars? Palpatine was elected to power and then used a catastrophic event to take on "war powers" The minute he got those powers he would never give them away and with a federal government in the pocket of the GOP and oversight a thing of the past I really hope that our current president gets a fucking sack of balls and at least gets his buddies behind an impartial and bipartisan investigation of the entire Iraqi conflict and the evidence for it or just resign.
"Bring 'em on?????" No, you get your ass in the desert and out of your little AIDS/abstinence educational trip to Africa (here's a good idea! blackmail the countries into teaching abstinence! "Don't have sex! Here's a Bible, you savages!")
Sinner! You obtained that file illegally! /forgive me....It's REALLY early here and I need a laugh. You can do it too if you want :)
I believe that a more appropriate title in the *AA's case would be the "Final Solution"
Unless you date Britney Spears!
Britney Spears comes clean; not a virgin!
Zing!
You may remember a while back that the record labels were considering adding their own "tax" of sorts onto used CD salse to discourage retailers from selling them.
They are thinking along the exact same lines as you are, except that they can't "tax" used CD sales that a customer sells to the store. That's just retarted!
Apple store openings are creepy! I went to the Knox Street opening in Highland Park, Texas and was probably one of the forst 50 inside the store. At lease I had a girlfriend there with me, though, so the geek factor went down by 20%
Anyway, when you're giling in there after they open the doors all the employees are cheering, clapping their hands and yelling a lot. I don't like being a frigging rock star when I walk into a store. My girlfriend walked to the back of the store, turned around, and as we walked out we got our free shirts.
There was nothing special about the store. I'd come back many times over the successive months, but all the stuff there was just as easy to see at my local CompUSA 10 minutes away from my apartment.
I like the interview sessions wit the programmers:
"Lots of great things come in the boxes: manuals, upgrades, warrantees."
"You can just call us up and ask for help on your software and we can give you a hand."
I'd like to see this now. Call Microsoft ans ask to speak to the guy who coded the AI for Clippy...
Well, to be fair Gator and its ilk usually gets installed in the background as part of some other operation that the user is involved in. I really do doubt that many users go to the gator site and say to themself "Self! This program will change how I use the Internet! Why doesn't everybody have this program!"
It comes in the background with KaZaa or some other P2P shit or even on those nefarious websites that download software by praying on the "click OK" instinct that everybody has on the Internet
....your tax dollars at work!
I ain't going to pay this any attention until the sex industry gets into it. Literally they have pioneered almost every semi-advanced technology on the interweb this is just going to be the next thing they do....hopefully....
It could at least make HotOrNot more interesting.....
Once again proving my time tested old theory:
The fatter and older we nerds get, the slimmer and younger our computer get.