While only a single case, I'm a legit customer and product activation was hardly a PITA. Installing a clean "upgrade" was tedious (although the savings of $140 was well worth it to me), but the activation itself was instantaneous and unremarkable. That said, I believe Vista is a waste of money overall, except that I find it to be the most feature-complete platform for an HD HTPC at present.
These might include kiosks in retail stores where consumers can purchase and burn discs in a controlled environment.
Because teenagers and college kids working in kiosks will prevent their friends and peers from making unauthorized duplications of any film without the express written consent of the MPAA, Skywalker Studios, and George Lucas.
The tax is reportedly supported in Service Pack 1 for Vista.
"To empty the Recycle Bin, please enter your E-Tax confirmation code: ______ [C]ontinue, [C]ancel"
"Windows could not determine if your confirmation code is authentic. Operation aborted. [C]ontinue, [C]ancel"
"Warning, Low Disk Space! You are running very low on disk space on C: To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, please click here."
I'd argue that the important point about sharing is about not being selfish -- putting others' interests above your own, albeit temporarily -- not about duplicating a toy so that someone else can play with it without depriving yourself in the process. In fact, sharing is not really what happens, so it's almost as much of a straw man when discussing IP as "stealing."
Copyright infringement is immoral. I don't believe it should be a criminal offense unless the offender is profiting. Nonetheless it is, inherently, enjoying the fruits of someone else's labor without compensating them and/or without their permission.
Remember, copyright is the same thing protecting Linux and other F/OSS.
It goes on to say, "The fourth and fifth most centrist outlets are the Drudge Report and Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume." Nonetheless, the scale was 0-100, with 100 being most liberal and 50.1 being centrist. Brit Hume's score was 39.7, making it clearly conservative.
And finally, "Our method only measures the degree to which media is liberal or conservative, relative to Congress," ergo even FOX's most centrist show is more conservative than Congress.
It's USENET unfortunate USENET that USENET there's USENET no USENET decentralized USENET content USENET distribution USENET system USENET with USENET practically USENET anonymous USENET access.
Some MPAA members worship a deity who allegedly convinced them to elect the government which runs the university which runs the computer store which sold me the computer which allowed me to run my operating system which allowed me to download this utility which allowed me to circumvent this encryption......in the hole at the bottom of the sea.
Or both. It's good to have port 80 access to downloads, since other methods are more likely to be blocked by firewalls. Not everyone has control over the network they use.
Why does everyone seem to treat this like a dichotomy? There's no reason they can't combine technical and administrative prohibitions. The technological measures don't have to be perfect; just blocking direct access (and possibly the next most popular method, if one exists) is usually sufficient to achieve the desired effect. You can use greylisting as well, where you audit the 10 or so most visted sites each month which aren't on a whitelist, and then black or whitelist them as appropriate. Once a year you could review the white/black lists (or when an employee raises a concern) and make changes as appropriate. Obviously trends change, so it would be an ongoing procedure, but that's life.
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it looks like he's thinking of ways to make the network work without having to trust the clients attached. That would be a neat trick.
We could call it an internet.
Open Source Network Management Beats IBM and HP savagly. Caught after posting video on YouTube. Story at 11.
While only a single case, I'm a legit customer and product activation was hardly a PITA. Installing a clean "upgrade" was tedious (although the savings of $140 was well worth it to me), but the activation itself was instantaneous and unremarkable. That said, I believe Vista is a waste of money overall, except that I find it to be the most feature-complete platform for an HD HTPC at present.
WHAT ITS NOT THAT MUCH!
Two shay!
These might include kiosks in retail stores where consumers can purchase and burn discs in a controlled environment.
Because teenagers and college kids working in kiosks will prevent their friends and peers from making unauthorized duplications of any film without the express written consent of the MPAA, Skywalker Studios, and George Lucas.
You should see how thin some dishes on real satellites are.
I would, but I'm just not feeling up to it.
people have also used those circular snow sleds as the basis for building a dish antenna.
If anyone has one, I'm willing toboggan.
I think you're confusing MacGyver with the wino on the corner of 4th and Madison.
I think that data stored in this fashion would actually be a lot harder to destroy than magnetic storage.
Only if you think using bleach is hard.
Would've been better if it was a recipe for some kick-ass chocolate chip cookies that just happen to cure cancer.
Five pages of posts and nobody's even bothered to Google a "wake-up call" for Microsoft.
Was that so hard?
I know we're getting lazy, but that's mentioned in the second sentence of the summary.
Emulators?
Honestly, nobody ever promised this stuff would last forever. You might as well complain that OSX doesn't natively run Apple IIe software.
The tax is reportedly supported in Service Pack 1 for Vista.
"To empty the Recycle Bin, please enter your E-Tax confirmation code: ______ [C]ontinue, [C]ancel"
"Windows could not determine if your confirmation code is authentic. Operation aborted. [C]ontinue, [C]ancel"
"Warning, Low Disk Space! You are running very low on disk space on C: To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary files, please click here."
I'd argue that the important point about sharing is about not being selfish -- putting others' interests above your own, albeit temporarily -- not about duplicating a toy so that someone else can play with it without depriving yourself in the process. In fact, sharing is not really what happens, so it's almost as much of a straw man when discussing IP as "stealing."
Copyright infringement is immoral. I don't believe it should be a criminal offense unless the offender is profiting. Nonetheless it is, inherently, enjoying the fruits of someone else's labor without compensating them and/or without their permission.
Remember, copyright is the same thing protecting Linux and other F/OSS.
Goodnight, and good luck.
You'll need it.
Here's the reference, but unfortunately it says "The first, second, and third most centrist outlets are respectively Newshour with Jim Lehrer, CNN's Newsnight with Aaron Brown, and ABC's Good Morning America."
It goes on to say, "The fourth and fifth most centrist outlets are the Drudge Report and Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume." Nonetheless, the scale was 0-100, with 100 being most liberal and 50.1 being centrist. Brit Hume's score was 39.7, making it clearly conservative.
And finally, "Our method only measures the degree to which media is liberal or conservative, relative to Congress," ergo even FOX's most centrist show is more conservative than Congress.
And of course..
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It's USENET unfortunate USENET that USENET there's USENET no USENET decentralized USENET content USENET distribution USENET system USENET with USENET practically USENET anonymous USENET access.
Some MPAA members worship a deity who allegedly convinced them to elect the government which runs the university which runs the computer store which sold me the computer which allowed me to run my operating system which allowed me to download this utility which allowed me to circumvent this encryption... ...in the hole at the bottom of the sea.
Ah, I'll blame the /. filters, which made your post appear to be a direct reply to his original.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grubuntu.
Or both. It's good to have port 80 access to downloads, since other methods are more likely to be blocked by firewalls. Not everyone has control over the network they use.
Why does everyone seem to treat this like a dichotomy? There's no reason they can't combine technical and administrative prohibitions. The technological measures don't have to be perfect; just blocking direct access (and possibly the next most popular method, if one exists) is usually sufficient to achieve the desired effect. You can use greylisting as well, where you audit the 10 or so most visted sites each month which aren't on a whitelist, and then black or whitelist them as appropriate. Once a year you could review the white/black lists (or when an employee raises a concern) and make changes as appropriate. Obviously trends change, so it would be an ongoing procedure, but that's life.