This is similar to a wireless internet access. I don't think you could reasonably argue that just because someone has placed a set of AP's in your area, you therefore have a right to use them without paying for it
your comparison of using the STV's signal to using someone else's WLAN is erroneous -- it's more like if I were broadcasting NTP [network time protocol] data (which happens to be UDP and does not require you to respond to the signal or interact in any way with the broadcast besides recieving it) and you used it to keep the time on your computers current, then I could say that you're "stealing my signal". your observance of the radio waves (without diminishing or changing the signal) which pass through your computer does not affect in any way someone else's ability to use the signal, who may have paid me for the service. To summarize: it costs me no more and no less to give the service to one close friend or ten thousand strangers as long as the signal is broadcast.
second:
if you pay taxes (yes you do) and steal satelite, what are you going to say the next time DirectTV says: Help, we're losing money to pirates!? Give us money, MR. Congressman. Are you going to say, well those idiots shouldn't be broadcasting it?
no, i'm going to say "mr congressman, if this company's business model isn't working, let their business fail. that's how a free market works. Legislation to keep a failed business model on its feet is the opposite of a free market (which I, due to my idealist nature, tend to want to believe that we still have, regardless of all this retarded shit that goes on).
The entire issue is stupid. if my neighbor throws a steak into my yard, and i subsequently take that steak and cook it, marinate it and enjoy it, that neighbor has no reason to complain, even though the steak did cost him money to procure and throw into my yard.
If American airlines drops a thousand bouncy balls onto my property from an airplane which flies overhead and I then entertain myself with those same bouncy balls for hours at a time, american airlines can't charge me for those bouncy balls. they threw those bouncy balls onto my personal fucking property.
But why stop there? just because someone was endangered is no reason to put ANYONE in jail. Every time you get on the freeway, you endager someone simply by your presence in a vehicile on a road. every time you buy Kraft cheese slices, you endanger someone who will end up buying Marlboro cigarettes (which are made by the same parent company).
Endangering someone is an assholish thing to do, but you don't see Rumsfeld or Bush being put in jail for endangering american solders' lives (or that of US contractors overseas, for that matter).
In a perfect world, people would consider the repercussions of their actions on other people, but in the real world, putting someone in temporary danger doesn't equal actually hurting them.
and to extend the thought, any "crime" that doesn't result in the quantifiable loss of life or money, or bodily injury, simply isn't a crime and should not be punished with imprisonment.
My Soyo kt600 platinum ultra came with a gigabit card onboard. My home network, however, is all 100. I would check the model of ethernet adaptor for you, but the drive is dead and currently won't boot.
on the other hand, and completely off-topic, avoid Soyo motherboards at all cost. the one i've got has been nothing but problems (isn't even stable above 112 mhz FSB), the one a friend of mine has constantly reports incorrect on-die temperatures and shuts off, my roommate's soyo absolutely refuses to play ball with more than one stick of ram (even when all three sticks work fine in other computers, and a single stick works equally find in any of the three slots)... the tech support has been outsourced to india. i wouldn't waste money on another Soyo. Even for gigabit onboard.
the Military stopped using them for a reason you know...
verily doth I say that thou art WRONG, poster! "the military", of which i am a proud member (or, the "marine corps", at least) has been dropping dell c620 and c640 laptops everywhere over the last six months; no end is in sight.
we use them for a reason: when you pay for the warantee, and you have an insane ammount of expendable manpower for paperwork and dealings with Dell, they become a useable company.
Panasonic's toughbooks, however, are better. IMNSHO.
are you sure she's not just lazy? there's not a whole lot of incentive to figure something as "complex" as computers out when there's someone who'll do it for you.
i've had several friends who, after i was unable or unwilling to help them download the newest system of a fag or gaynd song, figured it out quickly enough on their own.
If you spend 1$ more on that game to fund the developers' porting efforts, you help that developer reach a broader market, thus making more money, and thus having more money to spend developing new games (which you will be able to buy for your Xb0x0r).
It doesn't matter if Valve charges 10$ or 11$ (bulk rate) (number pulled wholly out of thin air) for half life 2. Wal-Mart will mark it up to $49.99, because that's what consumers will pay for a new game.
to put it another way:
Step 1: Valve develops "Game A"
Step 2: charge GamePrice(Game_A) ++
Step 3: sell Game A to target audience. 1$ extra per copy makes Valve an extra cool million dollars to invest in a linux port.
Step 4: Sell Game A (linux version) for the same price a few months later. 100,000 copies makes up the (free!) million dollars they spent porting it. 200,000 copies gives them an EXTRA million to spend porting half life 3.
Step 5: EXTRA profit!
I think that if instead of those normal notifications like it did say, such as "BLUE VALKYRIE NEEDS FOOD BADLY"
the game would have been much more fun if it threw in a couple like "BLUE VALKYIRIE IS ABOUT TO CRY" "BLUE VALKYRIE IS HAVING A BAD DAY" "BLUE VALKYRIE NEEDS TO TIE HER SHOE"
not only is Alaska bigger, it's more than twice as big.
not only is Alaska more than twice as big as Texas, there's a bill in congress right now to split Alaska into two equal-sized states, thus making Texas the third biggest state.
I think it's funny that you mention "special features" as one thing the industry is doing right.
when I bought the VHS version of Empire Records way back when, it came with two music videos after the feature -- "hear it from you" by the gin blossoms (which was a rather boring video) and "girl like you" by Edwyn Collins.
when, as i do love the movie and my VHS copy was getting ratty, i purchased the DVD, it came with a theatrical trailer as the "special features".
what, did they just decide to go _back_ in time on this one?
i speak as the voice of experience here. i'm a marine (still) working in iraq (i've been out here for six months).
since the start of this conflict, my unit had a number of Dell latitudes and a number of Panasonic toughbooks. Let me tell you, the weather here in the fertile crescent is, in a word, unforgiving. often, both the dells and the panasonics are hot to the touch. however, i can count on one hand the number of toughbooks that i've seen fail, while to count the number of latitudes, i'd have to use both hands, take off my boots, and maybe even undo my trousers.
i can't oficially say "the marine corps uses toughbooks! toughbooks make you strong! strength crushes enemnies!", but from my own personal experience, which just happens to include a six month tour in iraq and kuwait, toughbooks are the way to go if you need a badass laptop.
maybe now i'll be able to visit mars to get some Hot Springs action!
it'll be business (and tourism) that fuels the race to mars. once someone can make money by sending people there, there will be people on mars 6 months later.
I don't think that it's stupid to link a story a couple of days ago about Smart Routers in a discussion of how the NSA might deal with the barrage of information. With computing power increasing slower than bandwidth, the only way the NSA is going to even come close to being able to know what's going on (espescially when/if that 5,000 TB line that another reader was talking about comes on-line) is by prioritizing. what better way than by skimming the subject of the packet off? "this packet is just streaming audio from www.realnetworks.com, but this is an email from the russian prime minister to china. better keep that one." don't routers already do this? (*cue x-files music*)
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first:
your comparison of using the STV's signal to using someone else's WLAN is erroneous -- it's more like if I were broadcasting NTP [network time protocol] data (which happens to be UDP and does not require you to respond to the signal or interact in any way with the broadcast besides recieving it) and you used it to keep the time on your computers current, then I could say that you're "stealing my signal". your observance of the radio waves (without diminishing or changing the signal) which pass through your computer does not affect in any way someone else's ability to use the signal, who may have paid me for the service. To summarize: it costs me no more and no less to give the service to one close friend or ten thousand strangers as long as the signal is broadcast.second:
no, i'm going to say "mr congressman, if this company's business model isn't working, let their business fail. that's how a free market works. Legislation to keep a failed business model on its feet is the opposite of a free market (which I, due to my idealist nature, tend to want to believe that we still have, regardless of all this retarded shit that goes on).
The entire issue is stupid. if my neighbor throws a steak into my yard, and i subsequently take that steak and cook it, marinate it and enjoy it, that neighbor has no reason to complain, even though the steak did cost him money to procure and throw into my yard.
If American airlines drops a thousand bouncy balls onto my property from an airplane which flies overhead and I then entertain myself with those same bouncy balls for hours at a time, american airlines can't charge me for those bouncy balls. they threw those bouncy balls onto my personal fucking property.
to say anything else is sheer lunacy.
But why stop there? just because someone was endangered is no reason to put ANYONE in jail. Every time you get on the freeway, you endager someone simply by your presence in a vehicile on a road. every time you buy Kraft cheese slices, you endanger someone who will end up buying Marlboro cigarettes (which are made by the same parent company).
Endangering someone is an assholish thing to do, but you don't see Rumsfeld or Bush being put in jail for endangering american solders' lives (or that of US contractors overseas, for that matter).
In a perfect world, people would consider the repercussions of their actions on other people, but in the real world, putting someone in temporary danger doesn't equal actually hurting them.
and to extend the thought, any "crime" that doesn't result in the quantifiable loss of life or money, or bodily injury, simply isn't a crime and should not be punished with imprisonment.
Mod parent up. this is perhaps the most eloquent explanation of this concept I have ever read.
My Soyo kt600 platinum ultra came with a gigabit card onboard. My home network, however, is all 100. I would check the model of ethernet adaptor for you, but the drive is dead and currently won't boot.
on the other hand, and completely off-topic, avoid Soyo motherboards at all cost. the one i've got has been nothing but problems (isn't even stable above 112 mhz FSB), the one a friend of mine has constantly reports incorrect on-die temperatures and shuts off, my roommate's soyo absolutely refuses to play ball with more than one stick of ram (even when all three sticks work fine in other computers, and a single stick works equally find in any of the three slots)... the tech support has been outsourced to india. i wouldn't waste money on another Soyo. Even for gigabit onboard.
Hi, i just noticed that I have a fan. how did that happen? (i'm just curious)
i'm friending you JUST because you run a home network with multiple subnets AND you quote bad religion in your sig.
damn you! i almost spat water all over my laptop...
why isn't this modded funny?
verily doth I say that thou art WRONG, poster! "the military", of which i am a proud member (or, the "marine corps", at least) has been dropping dell c620 and c640 laptops everywhere over the last six months; no end is in sight.
we use them for a reason: when you pay for the warantee, and you have an insane ammount of expendable manpower for paperwork and dealings with Dell, they become a useable company.
Panasonic's toughbooks, however, are better. IMNSHO.
Nothing, considering that "Inner space" is 'that which is outside of the earth's atmosphere but inside the asteroid belt'.
compare and contrast the oft-referred to "outer space", which is everything outside the asteroid belt.
on the contrary; "i drink to make other people interesting". :D
are you sure she's not just lazy? there's not a whole lot of incentive to figure something as "complex" as computers out when there's someone who'll do it for you.
i've had several friends who, after i was unable or unwilling to help them download the newest system of a fag or gaynd song, figured it out quickly enough on their own.
you are my hero.
If you spend 1$ more on that game to fund the developers' porting efforts, you help that developer reach a broader market, thus making more money, and thus having more money to spend developing new games (which you will be able to buy for your Xb0x0r).
It doesn't matter if Valve charges 10$ or 11$ (bulk rate) (number pulled wholly out of thin air) for half life 2. Wal-Mart will mark it up to $49.99, because that's what consumers will pay for a new game.
to put it another way:
Step 1: Valve develops "Game A"
Step 2: charge GamePrice(Game_A) ++
Step 3: sell Game A to target audience. 1$ extra per copy makes Valve an extra cool million dollars to invest in a linux port.
Step 4: Sell Game A (linux version) for the same price a few months later. 100,000 copies makes up the (free!) million dollars they spent porting it. 200,000 copies gives them an EXTRA million to spend porting half life 3.
Step 5: EXTRA profit!
You hate zombies too?!
it seems to me more like this puts the score at "good guys: 2, spammers: 93856299376591".
maybe I'm just pessimistic?
I, for one, welcome our new Harry Knowles overlord.
I think that if instead of those normal notifications like it did say, such as
"BLUE VALKYRIE NEEDS FOOD BADLY"
the game would have been much more fun if it threw in a couple like
"BLUE VALKYIRIE IS ABOUT TO CRY"
"BLUE VALKYRIE IS HAVING A BAD DAY"
"BLUE VALKYRIE NEEDS TO TIE HER SHOE"
etc. or maybe i've just got no attention sp--
ooh! shiny!
That passage still hurts my brain, but it's so cool to think about.
not only is Alaska more than twice as big as Texas, there's a bill in congress right now to split Alaska into two equal-sized states, thus making Texas the third biggest state.
when I bought the VHS version of Empire Records way back when, it came with two music videos after the feature -- "hear it from you" by the gin blossoms (which was a rather boring video) and "girl like you" by Edwyn Collins.
when, as i do love the movie and my VHS copy was getting ratty, i purchased the DVD, it came with a theatrical trailer as the "special features".
what, did they just decide to go _back_ in time on this one?
i speak as the voice of experience here. i'm a marine (still) working in iraq (i've been out here for six months).
since the start of this conflict, my unit had a number of Dell latitudes and a number of Panasonic toughbooks. Let me tell you, the weather here in the fertile crescent is, in a word, unforgiving.
often, both the dells and the panasonics are hot to the touch.
however, i can count on one hand the number of toughbooks that i've seen fail, while to count the number of latitudes, i'd have to use both hands, take off my boots, and maybe even undo my trousers.
i can't oficially say "the marine corps uses toughbooks! toughbooks make you strong! strength crushes enemnies!", but from my own personal experience, which just happens to include a six month tour in iraq and kuwait, toughbooks are the way to go if you need a badass laptop.
peace.
maybe now i'll be able to visit mars to get some Hot Springs action!
it'll be business (and tourism) that fuels the race to mars. once someone can make money by sending people there, there will be people on mars 6 months later.
I don't think that it's stupid to link a story a couple of days ago about Smart Routers in a discussion of how the NSA might deal with the barrage of information. With computing power increasing slower than bandwidth, the only way the NSA is going to even come close to being able to know what's going on (espescially when/if that 5,000 TB line that another reader was talking about comes on-line) is by prioritizing. what better way than by skimming the subject of the packet off? "this packet is just streaming audio from www.realnetworks.com, but this is an email from the russian prime minister to china. better keep that one." don't routers already do this? (*cue x-files music*)