Just because it gets downloaded to your computer doesn't mean you have the right to watch it as many times as you want, as often as you want, for the rest of your life.
FTFA: Users will be able to view the material for 24 hours once they begin playback on their computers; once downloaded, the material will be stored on the user's computer for 30 days to act as a resource in the Peer Impact network
It's there for 30 days? Ok, fine.
It's there for 30 days, but I can use it for just one day? No. Fucking. Way.
There are time limits for On Demand and Blockbuster, now it's the limit for your authorized download. [...] Get over it already.
People can get copies of their stuff without paying them a cent for it. Get over it already.
No?
Then they should stop fucking with us by imposing arbitrary and artificial annoyances such as a 24h deadline. You have to return the PHYSICAL media when you rent, that's why we accept that limit: We don't want others to hang on indefinatly to the stuff we want to watch, so we accept that we must return the disc/cassette so that it will be available to others, and so others do the same in order for the content to be available to us.
But we COPY the content when we download it. It will get deleted when we're done with it, when we need the space, not when they decide they don't want us to have it anymore. Not to mention that in peer-to-peer realities, keeping the copy makes it available to others, not the other way around.
Their DRM will be circumvented, their content will be redistributed, for free, without their stupid limit, on "pirate" p2p networks, and it will be their damn fault for being TOO GREEDY.
Once the material is downloaded, users can only view it for up to 24 hours before it expires.
And they can only spend my money for 24h before the payment expires, ok?
They just don't get their custommers
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your chances of catching [...] a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place.
I think they're missing on what people are looking for on usenet in the first place;- )
Like he said, we'll get them, they'll just cost more but... um... so it's going to cost $110 to make, and they're selling them to the countries for $100?
From another article I read earlier this week (don't have the link handy, sorry)... The first batch will cost 10$ more than expected, but cost is expected to go down as production rolls on, so it will drop to 100$, and maybe less over time.
They plan on selling it to us non-disadvantaged interrested folk for 200$, so when you buy one, you also buy another for some poor kid.
If that becomes true, I'll buy one... charity that gets me a compy is the bestest charity! : )
"It is not an ideal system, but this way is better than the possibility of no speed limits and a bunch of idiot teenagers killing my innocent children while they speed down my neighborhood street."
There it goes, credibility out the window. Also I would ask, what kind of imbecile would let their kid play on a road with no speed limit? You do realize that is what you just said you'd do?
What he can do is relay the President's orders to the Armed Forces, act as the second voice of approval in a nuclear launch (two-man system), and advise the President on matters relating to defense. In the American system of Government that's what the cabinet does. It advises the President.
So, he pulls the strings, and the puppe... I mean "president" dances?;- )
how about we make our own End Computer Liscense Agreement:
By installing your software on this computer you, the software maker, agree that no spyware, adware, or any other malware is contained within, included, or linked to by your software, under penalty of catapult. RANDOM BIT ALL IN CAPS ABOUT WAVING LIABILITIES FAR BEYOND WHAT THE LAW ALLOWS.
How about an online connection? It seems like all the cool kids are online, now, right? Isn't that the point of these things? Getting modern? My cynical side thinks that this might be a nice gesture, but not much more than that
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To get the price down, an eight-inch diagonal screen -- smaller than standard notebook computers -- will run in two modes, with a high-resolution monochrome mode for word processing and a lower-resolution color mode for Internet surfing.
I haven't been following the whole Mac to Intel thing too closely but I was under the impression that most likely not any old PC would be able run OSX.
I figure Apple has recently developped an OSX on fixed X86 hardware customizing expertise, and that's a good project to keep on their toes. As far as I know, the laptop project will have standard hardware, which is an important ingredient of the "stable software on known hardware" reciepy Apple seems to find so darn tasty.
some kind of economic benefit back to those that produce it.
I find it appalling that including ads is thought of as an economic advantage. As if the ads were going to brainwash me into giving them money.
I have bought one thing because of the ads in my adult life: Captain Morgan Rhum. Because the ads were funny, and there's a cool pirate on the bottle. Aside from that, ads are A WASTE OF MY TIME, and a waste of their money.
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No matter what your ideological position is, after seeing the UN in action you'll never really support them again other than in idea.
I see what they do, and what I see is hungry people being fed.
So I guess your ideological position on starving folks is "let them eat cake"?
Repeal helmet laws!
Just because it gets downloaded to your computer doesn't mean you have the right to watch it as many times as you want, as often as you want, for the rest of your life.
FTFA: Users will be able to view the material for 24 hours once they begin playback on their computers; once downloaded, the material will be stored on the user's computer for 30 days to act as a resource in the Peer Impact network
It's there for 30 days? Ok, fine.
It's there for 30 days, but I can use it for just one day?
No. Fucking. Way.
There are time limits for On Demand and Blockbuster, now it's the limit for your authorized download. [...] Get over it already.
People can get copies of their stuff without paying them a cent for it. Get over it already.
No?
Then they should stop fucking with us by imposing arbitrary and artificial annoyances such as a 24h deadline.
You have to return the PHYSICAL media when you rent, that's why we accept that limit: We don't want others to hang on indefinatly to the stuff we want to watch, so we accept that we must return the disc/cassette so that it will be available to others, and so others do the same in order for the content to be available to us.
But we COPY the content when we download it. It will get deleted when we're done with it, when we need the space, not when they decide they don't want us to have it anymore. Not to mention that in peer-to-peer realities, keeping the copy makes it available to others, not the other way around.
Their DRM will be circumvented, their content will be redistributed, for free, without their stupid limit, on "pirate" p2p networks, and it will be their damn fault for being TOO GREEDY.
Do you demand your rental fee back when you return movies to Blockbuster? [...] Don't think of this as buying a movie, thing of it as renting.
Can they rent the movie to someone else if I don't return it?
Don't think of it as renting, because it isn't.
Once the material is downloaded, users can only view it for up to 24 hours before it expires.
And they can only spend my money for 24h before the payment expires, ok?
your chances of catching [...] a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place.
;- )
I think they're missing on what people are looking for on usenet in the first place
That being said, this is EXCELLENT. Imagine possibilities like clothing that changes color depending on the soap you wash it with.
;- )
Imagine?
Ask your mom to put some bleach in your next color's wash, it's FUN!
especially all the children who have hardly enough $ to eat
How you managed to type that, without your head exploding, eludes me.
Like he said, we'll get them, they'll just cost more but... um... so it's going to cost $110 to make, and they're selling them to the countries for $100?
From another article I read earlier this week (don't have the link handy, sorry)...
The first batch will cost 10$ more than expected, but cost is expected to go down as production rolls on, so it will drop to 100$, and maybe less over time.
They plan on selling it to us non-disadvantaged interrested folk for 200$, so when you buy one, you also buy another for some poor kid.
If that becomes true, I'll buy one... charity that gets me a compy is the bestest charity! : )
Only a minority of the slave keeping population seemed to object at the time.
And what did the slaves think?
"It is not an ideal system, but this way is better than the possibility of no speed limits and a bunch of idiot teenagers killing my innocent children while they speed down my neighborhood street."
There it goes, credibility out the window. Also I would ask, what kind of imbecile would let their kid play on a road with no speed limit? You do realize that is what you just said you'd do?
No, he did not.
Kids cross streets too.
What he can do is relay the President's orders to the Armed Forces, act as the second voice of approval in a nuclear launch (two-man system), and advise the President on matters relating to defense.
;- )
In the American system of Government that's what the cabinet does. It advises the President.
So, he pulls the strings, and the puppe... I mean "president" dances?
require the citizens to be personally responsible for their lives. Drugs would be legal. There would be no speed limits.
When people drive, they are also responsible for other people's lives, wether they realise it or not. Hence the speed limits.
Especially if you're gonna have people driving high on coke.
Anyway, go play nationstates, it's free, and fun for a while.
Yeah, so soon as I saw that tech in the blurb, I knew I was gonna have that song in my head all day...
I blam Actuator Man.
My cynical side thinks that this might be a nice gesture, but not much more than that
FTFA:
I haven't been following the whole Mac to Intel thing too closely but I was under the impression that most likely not any old PC would be able run OSX.
I figure Apple has recently developped an OSX on fixed X86 hardware customizing expertise, and that's a good project to keep on their toes. As far as I know, the laptop project will have standard hardware, which is an important ingredient of the "stable software on known hardware" reciepy Apple seems to find so darn tasty.
More critical thinking skills for the kids that get to fix their linux installs instead of clicking on pretty icons.
It's that attitude that's keeping the bimbos out of the computer dating sites you know!
Giving their track record with the Oil for food program and peace keepers raping innocent Africans, I don't want the UN anywhere near the net.
"Given the U.S. track record with the Oil For Food program and soldiers raping innocent Africans, I don't want the U.S. anywhere near the net."
That statement is as factually correct as yours.
I'm not trying to be pro-american here, but we did technically make it, so why can't we govern it?
England did technically make you, so why can't they govern you?
Just because it's been said many times here, it doesn't automatically make this statement correct.
In soviet Russia it does!
some kind of economic benefit back to those that produce it.
I find it appalling that including ads is thought of as an economic advantage.
As if the ads were going to brainwash me into giving them money.
I have bought one thing because of the ads in my adult life: Captain Morgan Rhum. Because the ads were funny, and there's a cool pirate on the bottle. Aside from that, ads are A WASTE OF MY TIME, and a waste of their money.
I'm not their slave.
Because, you're right, I am more interested in mysterious languages than in proper names.
In the U.S. we expect that people will say anything on their minds and as long as nobody can prove that you are lying
Well, that explains the start of the Iraq war then. I was wondering how anyone could buy the "prove you DON'T have something" line of reasoning.