Probably because the license agreement guarantees NOTHING, in great big capital letters. They exclude all warranties, including the statutory implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.
Software is sold on a "if it sucks, you lose" basis.
Uhh, sold? These people didn't buy these programs. They didn't ask for them to be installed for free. In fact, they were actively trying to prevent this software from being installed at all. Then they were unable to remove it without damaging their systems or taking many hours per machine.
When someone crawls through your window in the middle of the day, glues a gigantic ad for granny porn on your bedroom wall, hands you a notice saying that they are offering no warranty for this and you are agreeing for this to be done, then sits there waiting for you to take it down so that they can put it back up again, this person needs to die.
Eh? Where the hell does iTunes get their music? It's making the record companies suffer? Using iTunes, Google Music, Rhapsody, Yahoo Music, Amazon, et al, supports the miserable music industry. It lets them think you want 'Fair' content that can only have 5 copies of. That's still being treated like a criminal, just with a bigger cell.
Buy DRM-less independent music if you want to be treated fairly.
eMusic Subcription-based, very cheap, a lot of great artists and indie labels (New Pornos, Spoon, Blackalicious, CCR, Thelonius Monk)
BLEEP A-la-carte, most electronic but has a lot of small labels, some stuff in FLAC (Warp records, Ninja Tune, One Little Indian/Bjork)
AudioLunchbox Subscription and a-la-carte, a little pricier than emusic but has some different artists (Death Cab for Cutie, The Sounds)
Calabash Mostly world and folk music (Tinariwen, reggae)
There are more. Hopefully Songbird will make it easier to access them all through a single interface.
The variable bit rate goes up to 320kbps is what that means (variable 0-320kbps), not the avg bit rate. Most tracks have average bit rate of about 200kbps at emusic and bleep, so it seems from observation. It was an easy way of saying high quality MP3s without writing out the flags they all use. But thank you for sharing your LAME aptitude.
Immersion? In MMO's? With voice chattering and message spamming teenagers? And endless, repeatitive gameplay?
Seriously though, all the games you mention are so shallow that a barbque where your jedi gets drunk and starts a fight with your crack dealer would only serve to give them more depth.
The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet's software is upgradeable and currently runs on the Linux-based Internet Tablet 2005 software edition. There is a planned launch next year of an operating system upgrade - the Internet Tablet 2006 software edition - that will support additional services, including Internet telephony (VoIP) and Instant Messaging.
Asterisk and Gaim pre-installed, coming soon.
Now if only it used CF instead of RS-MMC (why use reduced size cards in something this big??)
You could just buy music from people who respect your fair use rights, you know.
emusic.com audiolunchbox.com bleep.com calabashmusic.com... and some others that sell MP3's of independent music.
It can be annoying, like how you can only get the first two Green Day albums, or Rev. Horton Heat's 2 indie releases (out of 10 total or so). No Nirvana, Beck, mainstream rap and country, or basically anything that plays on the radio.
Then again, you can get The Dismemberment Plan, Pinback, Modest Mouse (older), Death Cab for Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, MF Doom, Ninja Tune, Classical, Jazz, world music, blues, etc.
Indeed. Economics is all about using up a resource, then moving on to new ones (be it natural or human). It's the viral nature of humanity, fueled by optimism and greed.
Iron, copper, tungsten, and many other raw materials are "threatened" with maybe a couple hundred, or dozen, years of production left at current and/or projected rates.
The plastic that wraps wires is becoming scarce much more quickly, of course. Along with a few other related materials.
But when you look at his wealth to scale, with *orders of magnitude* more fortune than even necessary to still be fabulously rich, what he does amounts to tossing pennies into the crowd.
That's great, but there are blogs other than groklaw, a point you and most of the posters seem to be ignoring.
Political extremism in blogs(a psychotic ultraleft/ultraright split that excludes the positions of 90% of the country) is damaging to political discourse and helps reinforce a fabricated cultural divide. They're filled with personal attacks against specific public figures, each other, and private citizens that say things that they think don't like. They do little besides recycle other peoples real journalism (the kind where you get away from your computer, talk to people, investigate things with your feet, etc.), encourage hate of the other side, reference obscure and irrelavant history, and generally put AM radio to sham.
Maybe one day they'll be used to report on more than letters that might be forgeries and right-wing journalists that used to be prostitutes. I look forward to it.
You wanted to put up negative infomation about John Kerry, before the election, I assume. This is coming from a guy who has a 'kerrylied.com' link in his sig. Your source was A book (one of the kerry-bashing books? and they didn't think it was an authoritative reference? to think). Then you describe these people who won't leave up your crazed propaganda as 'partisans' because the internet is anti-bush.
And you are rated +3 insightful.
Maybe a/. style of ratings for wikipedia posts is a BAD idea...
'Standby' on my iBookG4 uses about 1% battery life per 2 hours. I can literally leave it on standby for 3 days and use 25% or so of my battery. It takes about 2 seconds to emerge from standby. I never turn it off.
'Standby' on my Latitude at work uses about 10% per hour, and takes 5-10 seconds to emerge. The 'Hibernate' feature uses almost no battery, but you basically reboot when you turn it back on.
Instead of speeding up the latter, I'd rather Intel take a que from Apple about their Standby mode.
Instead of paying people to poison and corrupt the p2p networks (which only slows the problem and doesn't stop it) just SELL THE SHOW ONLINE. That's right, you can MAKE MONEY by having the show on the internet, maybe even using one of the new secure p2p clients for distribution. I would gladly pay $2-3 to download an episode of your show the week ( or the day ) it is released. That's about 10-15 dollars a month for HBO, about the same price as a month's subscription to HBO, but I can watch the shows whenever I want and not have to buy a PVR or wade through the crap movies they usually play.
It worked with iTunes, it can work with you. Repeat after me: THIS SERVICE EXISTS. You can't make it go away by brute force or legislation. Either sell it, or people will take it.
I'm not sure if you think this will sap the $80/season DVD sales--if so, just release the episodes at good, but less than DVD, quality. That plus the bonus features plus non-tech savvy users will still sell plenty of DVD's.
I won't buy anything excessivly DRM'd. I won't buy a "play-once" format video. I won't buy anything with my DNA sequence encoded in the file. People will still distribute illegal copies whether they're the ones you make or not.
Just. Sell. It. To. Me. It's an untapped market waiting for a pioneer.
He sites Examples He discovers the location of the lost, forgotten Greek city of Examples, thought to be a pretty good representation of the way most stuff was back then!
Neither do you, certainly not one of this size, or you would know people need all the help they can get.
Can you use a hammer? Great, then you can frame a house. Can you use a shovel? Great, then you can help clean the two feet of mud out of some peoples' houses. Can you talk to people on a phone? Great, then you can help relay calls to relatives in different shelters or shore up the help lines at utilities' or relief orgs' call centers. You see, most people who really need to can't go to www.fema.gov or the like. Can you spare some plastic containers/chest-like things? Building materials? Cleaning supplies? Shovels, axes, chainsaws, drills... no clothes please, by the way. We've got quite enough. Do you know how to build/fix any part of a house? If you do, could you show me and others? Could we have some jobs? You don't have to be Halliburton to bring business down here.
We need long term help, especially. Medical care, jobs, schools, houses, neighborhoods. The Military just get people off their roofs and make sure they don't starve or kill each other. The Red Cross if for emergency relief, and who knows if they'll share their overly large (70%) share of the donations. FEMA is for, apparently, acting as a political lightening rod and blaming Ray Nagin for everything.
Anything will do. People that "know what they are doing" are doing a shit job of it. People who have seen whats happening and just come down to do whatever they can have done the best job. By far.
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And if you want to make a bowel movement, I got that one too. So pay up.
I owe you quite a back log.
Probably because the license agreement guarantees NOTHING, in great big capital letters. They exclude all warranties, including the statutory implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.
Software is sold on a "if it sucks, you lose" basis.
Uhh, sold? These people didn't buy these programs. They didn't ask for them to be installed for free. In fact, they were actively trying to prevent this software from being installed at all. Then they were unable to remove it without damaging their systems or taking many hours per machine.
When someone crawls through your window in the middle of the day, glues a gigantic ad for granny porn on your bedroom wall, hands you a notice saying that they are offering no warranty for this and you are agreeing for this to be done, then sits there waiting for you to take it down so that they can put it back up again, this person needs to die.
Metaphorically speaking of course.
Eh? Where the hell does iTunes get their music? It's making the record companies suffer? Using iTunes, Google Music, Rhapsody, Yahoo Music, Amazon, et al, supports the miserable music industry. It lets them think you want 'Fair' content that can only have 5 copies of. That's still being treated like a criminal, just with a bigger cell.
Buy DRM-less independent music if you want to be treated fairly.
eMusic Subcription-based, very cheap, a lot of great artists and indie labels (New Pornos, Spoon, Blackalicious, CCR, Thelonius Monk)
BLEEP A-la-carte, most electronic but has a lot of small labels, some stuff in FLAC (Warp records, Ninja Tune, One Little Indian/Bjork)
AudioLunchbox Subscription and a-la-carte, a little pricier than emusic but has some different artists (Death Cab for Cutie, The Sounds)
Calabash Mostly world and folk music (Tinariwen, reggae)
There are more. Hopefully Songbird will make it easier to access them all through a single interface.
You may be thinking of the Quarkers. They are firmly protestant if I'm not mistaken.
The variable bit rate goes up to 320kbps is what that means (variable 0-320kbps), not the avg bit rate. Most tracks have average bit rate of about 200kbps at emusic and bleep, so it seems from observation. It was an easy way of saying high quality MP3s without writing out the flags they all use. But thank you for sharing your LAME aptitude.
Not true at all
320bps VBR MP3s:
http://www.audiolunchbox.com/
http://www.magnatune.com/
http://www.bleep.com/, who sells FLACs as well.
There are more.
Kharma whoring.
Ah, the launch codes. Thank you Dmitri. Payment is in the usual location.
Immersion? In MMO's? With voice chattering and message spamming teenagers? And endless, repeatitive gameplay?
Seriously though, all the games you mention are so shallow that a barbque where your jedi gets drunk and starts a fight with your crack dealer would only serve to give them more depth.
How is this different from a market order or a limit order? Are they going to sue the NY exchange or the NASDAQ next?
Yes. With their "Method for Yelling out a Price Using Human Vocal Cords" patent.
Soon Nokia will make it even easier
From their website:
Asterisk and Gaim pre-installed, coming soon.
Now if only it used CF instead of RS-MMC (why use reduced size cards in something this big??)
You could just buy music from people who respect your fair use rights, you know.
... and some others that sell MP3's of independent music.
emusic.com
audiolunchbox.com
bleep.com
calabashmusic.com
It can be annoying, like how you can only get the first two Green Day albums, or Rev. Horton Heat's 2 indie releases (out of 10 total or so). No Nirvana, Beck, mainstream rap and country, or basically anything that plays on the radio.
Then again, you can get The Dismemberment Plan, Pinback, Modest Mouse (older), Death Cab for Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, MF Doom, Ninja Tune, Classical, Jazz, world music, blues, etc.
That's what WOXY tried. They didn't make enough through donations, despite their popularity.
Now they're trying to charge as much as XM or Sirius...
$9.95 a month...
for 1 station...
at 64kbps...
Indeed. Economics is all about using up a resource, then moving on to new ones (be it natural or human). It's the viral nature of humanity, fueled by optimism and greed.
Iron, copper, tungsten, and many other raw materials are "threatened" with maybe a couple hundred, or dozen, years of production left at current and/or projected rates.
The plastic that wraps wires is becoming scarce much more quickly, of course. Along with a few other related materials.
I don't proprietary know what proprietary design proprietary means either, or proprietary what brands are proprietary proprietary.
I don't think you realize just how shiny this new package is.
Hip hop group from the early 90's. "Tennessee" was their big single. Only thing that rings a bell.
But when you look at his wealth to scale, with *orders of magnitude* more fortune than even necessary to still be fabulously rich, what he does amounts to tossing pennies into the crowd.
2,880,000,000,000 pennies
That's great, but there are blogs other than groklaw, a point you and most of the posters seem to be ignoring.
Political extremism in blogs(a psychotic ultraleft/ultraright split that excludes the positions of 90% of the country) is damaging to political discourse and helps reinforce a fabricated cultural divide. They're filled with personal attacks against specific public figures, each other, and private citizens that say things that they think don't like. They do little besides recycle other peoples real journalism (the kind where you get away from your computer, talk to people, investigate things with your feet, etc.), encourage hate of the other side, reference obscure and irrelavant history, and generally put AM radio to sham.
Maybe one day they'll be used to report on more than letters that might be forgeries and right-wing journalists that used to be prostitutes. I look forward to it.
This is hilarious.
/. style of ratings for wikipedia posts is a BAD idea...
You wanted to put up negative infomation about John Kerry, before the election, I assume. This is coming from a guy who has a 'kerrylied.com' link in his sig. Your source was A book (one of the kerry-bashing books? and they didn't think it was an authoritative reference? to think). Then you describe these people who won't leave up your crazed propaganda as 'partisans' because the internet is anti-bush.
And you are rated +3 insightful.
Maybe a
'Standby' on my iBookG4 uses about 1% battery life per 2 hours. I can literally leave it on standby for 3 days and use 25% or so of my battery. It takes about 2 seconds to emerge from standby.
I never turn it off.
'Standby' on my Latitude at work uses about 10% per hour, and takes 5-10 seconds to emerge. The 'Hibernate' feature uses almost no battery, but you basically reboot when you turn it back on.
Instead of speeding up the latter, I'd rather Intel take a que from Apple about their Standby mode.
"There is no law requiring a congressman to represent the will of his/her constituency."
This is, quite possibly, the worst example of a government worker "not my job"-ism ever uttered.
Instead of paying people to poison and corrupt the p2p networks (which only slows the problem and doesn't stop it) just SELL THE SHOW ONLINE. That's right, you can MAKE MONEY by having the show on the internet, maybe even using one of the new secure p2p clients for distribution. I would gladly pay $2-3 to download an episode of your show the week ( or the day ) it is released. That's about 10-15 dollars a month for HBO, about the same price as a month's subscription to HBO, but I can watch the shows whenever I want and not have to buy a PVR or wade through the crap movies they usually play.
It worked with iTunes, it can work with you. Repeat after me: THIS SERVICE EXISTS. You can't make it go away by brute force or legislation. Either sell it, or people will take it.
I'm not sure if you think this will sap the $80/season DVD sales--if so, just release the episodes at good, but less than DVD, quality. That plus the bonus features plus non-tech savvy users will still sell plenty of DVD's.
I won't buy anything excessivly DRM'd. I won't buy a "play-once" format video. I won't buy anything with my DNA sequence encoded in the file. People will still distribute illegal copies whether they're the ones you make or not.
Just. Sell. It. To. Me. It's an untapped market waiting for a pioneer.
Maybe he was really trying to say this:
He sights examples
There's one!
or:
He sites Examples
He discovers the location of the lost, forgotten Greek city of Examples, thought to be a pretty good representation of the way most stuff was back then!
Neither do you, certainly not one of this size, or you would know people need all the help they can get.
Can you use a hammer? Great, then you can frame a house.
Can you use a shovel? Great, then you can help clean the two feet of mud out of some peoples' houses.
Can you talk to people on a phone? Great, then you can help relay calls to relatives in different shelters or shore up the help lines at utilities' or relief orgs' call centers. You see, most people who really need to can't go to www.fema.gov or the like.
Can you spare some plastic containers/chest-like things? Building materials? Cleaning supplies? Shovels, axes, chainsaws, drills... no clothes please, by the way. We've got quite enough.
Do you know how to build/fix any part of a house? If you do, could you show me and others?
Could we have some jobs? You don't have to be Halliburton to bring business down here.
We need long term help, especially. Medical care, jobs, schools, houses, neighborhoods. The Military just get people off their roofs and make sure they don't starve or kill each other. The Red Cross if for emergency relief, and who knows if they'll share their overly large (70%) share of the donations. FEMA is for, apparently, acting as a political lightening rod and blaming Ray Nagin for everything.
Anything will do. People that "know what they are doing" are doing a shit job of it. People who have seen whats happening and just come down to do whatever they can have done the best job. By far.