>Yeah. Its odd how some scientist can say a measurement can be perfectly repeatable when one of the major tenants of science is that there will always be variance.
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." -Yogi Berra
Unless the DRM situation with these things changes drastically (for the better, that is), I wish them both death by a thousand stalemates.
Is it safe to assume that these players can play non-DRM formated HD movies? In that case the only problem is the MPAA monopoly that will only sell DRM'd movies, ie a non-hardware issue.
You should be able to download a HD movie from a torrent, and record it to a HD disk, correct? I am guessing you will have to pay-up a second license for a license to encode a disk, that sucks, but thats not DRM right, thats the copyright problem instead.
I hope someone comes out with a DIVX player with a blue-ray drive. so I can put my entire DIVX movie collection on 5 or 6 Disks. I would be willing to pay $35 for the media, since about 40 hours of DVD quality movies would fit on each. The recorder would need to be under a $1000 before my employer would buy one that I could borrow though.
I was about to moderate as flamebait, because the first page of the article answers why. Then I read the last page of the article, which basically says use a portable drive for a portable application. no-where would you use it in a actuall Desktop. heck the mentioned use in a media center PC sucks, cause you will need many of the notebook drives to replace a single PC drive, then you'll want a raid setup to get the speed up, which ends up using more space than they save. My first thought was, it would be much easier to mount a notebook drive in my tivo as the second drive (requires custom bracket, and cooling flow consideration), but the Tivo only has 2 IDE slots, and the biggest 7200rpm notebook ide drive I found was 60 GB. Hardly worth the effort, cheaper/easier/more convient to replace the first drive with 500Gb and still have plenty of $$$ left to pay for any extra power consumed.
the programmers use the products they are developing, during the development process. Perhaps they are using a beta in-house MSN search server, so that most searches don't exit their intra-net, and this 80% number is all from their Apple test lab (ie just a few hundred requests a day.)
>you didn't need a spectrum analyzer to get you to buy the higher frequency phones. You would have done that anyway.
to find the biggest offender, radios do go bad.
I got a SpreadSpectrum 2.4Ghz phone, 2*2.4Ghz access point, and a 5Ghz wireless video link, and 3*2.4Ghz devices accesing the access points, and a Microwave. It all works no problem together (except the microwave kills the video link when in use.)
My brother has a cordless phone, and 1 AP, and 1 Laptop. His phone knocks his laptop off the network everytime. whats the difference? could be his A.P. isn't switching frequencies when he tried to force it. Could be any other device in his house (or unshielded cable TV) is tieing up all but one frequeny in the AP's range, or it could be a really bad phone. It is cheap to replace the phone, since the problem is obviously tied to it's use, but if it is the A.P. he will likely be fighting the same issue in the future. If a neighbors device steps into the now open frequency at next power outage/etc.
with this we could look at what the phone, PC, TV, Sat, Laptop, etc each contribute to that spectrum (and walk around the house to find the strongest area to locate.) not just which device pushed us over the edge, and is easiest to power off for a long period. IE maybe he just needs to replace a $2 coax cable, but what a pain to cut the feed for hours while he tests every other scenariao.
>What happened to presumption of innocence? ahh I smell a new definition of presumption of innocence, we are too assume all girls under 18 are a virgin unless married, or someone is convicted of having sex with them.
In the US (well except maybe parts of the south) being told your 14 year old daughter is having sex is horrible. Then having the entire town know about it would be the end of the world to her. Now the entire country has been told...
> legally counts as sexual assault gotcha, so by your definition: the soldiers in Iraq who were abducted, and their dead bodys found, can't be considered mudered, or even harmed, until someone is convicted? What a relief to their families that must be.
Article said she was 14, and myspace age limitation is 14 or older. Seams likely she signed up before she was 14 though (not stated.) Their complaint seams to be that a person who said He was a high-school senior was actually 19. Well from that statement she knew she was meeting someone 3-4 years older than herself, but not 5??? >This is why I don't understand how age verification would have solved anything to begin with In her case this does seam un-important, however they said their were previous incidents of 34 year old men mis-representing them selves and taking advantage of minors. Without those previous incidents their would likely be no case.
> The fact that they are suing makes them shitty, bad, awful,... easy now, they had a horrible thing happen to their daughter. It seams natural to blame someone else, because you weren't able to controll the situation as much as you thought. I think it is likely they are genuine in fealing that MySpace was to blame, and hasn't taken the steps they think are necessary, and thus are trying to hurt them equally. I don't know anything about myspace to see if they should do more. It does seam like, if their putting forth age information to connect minors with each other, that their should be a check-up in the system. However if no one has complained about this particular person in the past, then I don't see how you could have a succesfull chat room for minors that makes them prove who they are first.
>I called the bank... I told them which ones were bogus I dropped all my cards except those that allow online disputes for this. (for me) much easier to click the transactions, hit dispute, and forget about it until they call me Instead of 10 minutes on hold, then giving all my account details, mothers name, SSN digits... over a insecure link (any phone line, but especially my cordless phone at home, cell eats minutes) to get them to chat. Unfortunatly the only cards I have found were Discover and AMEX that allow this, anyone know of a no fee visa/mastercard that allows this?
The worst was my Sears MasterCard, do not get one of them. you gotta call, then snail mail back a signed thing that they must recieve within 2 weeks of you finding the fraud (5 days to get the form, 5 days to return, = 4 days to fill out.) Also stated policy of almost all visa's is you can only dispute charges in your homestate only... apperently un-enforceable, or un-enforced anyway, but then why have that hanging out their.
>Even dropping a new iceberg off a glacier will technically raise the level of the oceans slightly. not if that glacier was floating in the water. Actually as rocks on the glaciers melt through (heavier than water), or fall off, the ocean level would drop, not rise, because the glacier displaces the same amount of water per weight, but a rock sinking doesn't. (the rock floating on a glacier was displacing it's weight in water: upon falling off, the glacier rises up displacing less water than that of the rock now sinking to the bottom...)
> This really seems absurd to me since you have the ability to vote, unless your a felon, and the ability to run for office The fear statement would apply equally to me. However, it is not currently a big enough fear, or even the biggest fear I can deal with in my life. Theirfore it is not (yet) worth my effort to spend 95% of my time to try and change it. However it is getting above the 1-2% of my time worth, that I may actually (for the first time) be motivated enough to participate before the primarys this year.
even if it were hot enough to occupy 100% of my efforts, it is unlikely I would be able to get any changes accomplished within 10 years. Maybe with good support, and lots of luck, in 25 years I could make some subtle changes in the direction I fealt necessary, perhaps to be outdone by someone on the otherside first.
Or maybe they do. I have a Yahoo account and use a mail client on my pc to read my mail.
didn't know they brought back pop as a premium service. 6 years ago I paid like $5 a year for pop access, before they canned all premium services. now it's $30 a year for everything, worth considering.
> You do realize you're doing embedded code, a very small market and completely unrelated to normal code?
Do you realize that every piece of high level code written relies on dozens of embedded controllers to accomplish anything. so saying it is unrelated shows the ignorance of your typical high level programmer.
IE they have no idea how many GPU's/CPU's/PLA's in drives/disk controllers/Graphics cards/montiors/usb devices, etc that they are totally reliant on working for that piece of code to work. You are correct that the majority of coders don't need to change anything at that level, and with the exception of not being a well rounded programer, don't profit from knowing what is working.
As the grandparent mentions power savings, that cuts across the board. The more efficient the code, the lower the CPU load, the lower the CPU requirements, the less environmental impact... It may not seam like much to your high level programer that their database sort takes 5 seconds more than it could, and runs 100* a day, and thus loads the server more, so more servers are needed with the next app... That is not lost on the google GUI programers of the world, who realize their code will not get run a 100 times a day, or a hour, or a second. but over 10000 times a second. If you aspire to have your code help everyone on the internet repeatedly, then take some pride and learn what really happens behind the scenes. If your happy to make 6 figures for many years until your job is outsourced to a cheaper code monkey, and will cry about it endlessly on BBS's that they setup for you, then don't sweat the small details.
but Gmail is all scripted so you can't simply open messages,etc in seperate tabs with a click. And their pop access is very buggy (at least for me since I use multiple clients during the day) and you can't use it to download other imap/pop emails on other servers.
Yahoo may not provide pop, but the java script html scrappers work much better than the gmail pop server. And it is really handy to create a backup of my work emails with a simple click at yahoo.
since yahoo improved their email search, no need (to me) to creat categories. but you can create folders, and they actually come across with the pop scrapers, unlike gmail.
> except they could afford to visit the western world, where cheap electronics would be no more. well, also they would be able to buy stuff exported from the U.S., etc. That would be nice, but the ipod is not strong enough to lift China it's self.
That was why Henry Ford was considered novel, he paid his workers enough to buy his products during a time when others didn't. Thus lifting the entire city up, and then with competition for labor that trickled out beyond that cities borders...
now money, and the lust for it does change/destroy cultures. Then again thats evolution, the world changes. So these women are no longer working along side their family (perhaps because the world made it illegal for her underage child to work with her.) So drastic changes will always result from the influence of outsourcing some bad, some good.
> The tabloids probably wouldn't pay enough maybe the tabloids wouldn't, but meteroites are worth more per pound than gold. if you could recover a couple pounds of those 98 pounds you'll be buying any car you wanted.
> Granted the people who were involved here were exceedingly stupid. why? I would guess their exact actions would go un-prosecuted 99% of the time, being law breakers they probably know that. If they do get prosecuted it probably cost them under a $1000, no jail time. This is a good example of how vindictive (and ingenuitive) victims can catch up to you. I have been the victim before, having a name and photo of someone for a crime under $1000 didn't get me anything. Unless you yourself do the work of getting their current address and suepenas, etc (I did, but I had more time than money back then). Even being on video, and giving your name out at a non-violent crime wouldn't be all that stupid unless you hit the wrong mark.
>They FOUND the phone. They aren't guilty of a crime. once they used the phone in a manner the owner wouldn't approve of (ie not used in a attempt to return it) they were then commiting a crime of theft.
The actus reus of theft is usually defined as an unauthorised taking, keeping or using of another's property which must be accompanied by a mens rea of dishonesty and/or the intent to permanently deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use.
> I would never invest in a music collection that could only work with one brand of player. It amazes me how many people are willing to do so. I bet you would never pay for water and ice. And also would never pay for oxygen (at a oxygen bar for instance.) I am guilty of wasting many hours hacking my Tivo, and phone (also to play mp3's), and handheld to be able to play a video, etc that I could have just purchased much cheaper. I did it because I liked the challange, but it would have been much more efficient to just buy the prepackaged content for my player. Simular with bottled water, when I go to the lake, I could use my empty Pepsi bottles, fill them with my camping pump, or a tap, instead it is much more efficient to just pay for a nice package that I can throw into a cooler with no extra thought wasted.
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> If the networks can no longer count on people watching at least some ads, I'll fall back onto the, "we always watch the superbowl adds" in my economics classes, advertising is supposed to be good for both the consumer and the seller. When you produce such a commercial it is in the best intrest of everyone to view it. It is not in the best intrest of everyone to have forced viewing of content that does them no good that they dont want to see, when insted it would be in the best economic intrest of all to bypass the crap to choose the better advert.
IE, I am a beer drinking male, when I rewind to see the manlaw commercial again, then skip seeing some martha stewert type crap, all win. because no matter how many times I see the advert, I am not going out to buy some plastic lawn ornimate crap.
so replace one actor that wants $10 million dollars a episode, and produce at least one new commericial per new show produced, and make it informative, or have mostly naked women in it. actually no, just make it informative, not simply "buy this product because were soo cool, and we got paid to pretend like this is a good product."
cell phones are replacing the use of land lines at the consumer level. Same as VCR's are being replaced. I still have a land line, and 3 VCR's but I rarely use either, thats replacing. IE, you could take my home phone, and VCR's away, but they still work (and the same is true for most people I know.) so they stick around, but 90% of how they were used has been replaced.
>In what world has land lines _replaced_ cell phones?
I went to Chile, land lines are all but gone their, not in the new housing developments. They even charge you to call CellPhones, doesn't matter. I hear the same is true in Japan, and much of europe. Heck, the smart thing to do if visiting these places is to rent a Cell phone locally, forget the pay phones.
Not happening very fast in any of the less wealthy groups of people, but they are unlikely to have had their own phone line either.
>in which case you can probably get other services (TV/VOIP) on top of your landline. great their is still use for the landline, because the previous use is almost replaced. (now your saying even power lines, etc are what you consider landlines, their not going away. Well hopefully within 5 years I can be all solar, and WiFi, with maybe a backup generator. more like 10 though.)
> Dropping it onto the floor from a height of five feet wouldn't have been too much work.
But then who would pay $25 for it at a swap meet. Even without that drop the only reason I could see spending $25 on a used hard-drive, was if the couples concern for the valuable info on the drive, apperently expressed at the store was, passed on to the purchaser.
Sounds like they have reason to be concerend, apperently the guy dumpster dives for drives, then inflates a rediculous price for a questionable piece of hardware. Now what difference it makes if they trust the guy to wipe the drive, or buy it back from him so they can be sure the data was handled properly? Apperently the guy had already extracted and copied all the data he wanted anyway. Maybe he was just looking for the $25 + shipping/handeling reward anyway.
Under federal law, you may lawfully transport your guns if you have the lawful right to possess them where you reside, and also in the place where you are transporting the guns to.
to comply with that using a shipping company they will only ship from a licensed gun dealer to another licensed gun dealer. But you as a owner can drive across state borders legaly (except maybe california, other states don't require out of state hunters to have local permits to carry a unloaded firearm that is in some way secured with a lock, ie in the truck.)
> Ah hmm wait, so Veritas produced a technology and patented it, Microsoft licensed/bought the software and incorporated it into Windows. Fair play. Fair play. Later on Symantec buy Veritas and now sue Microsoft That seams true enough. for using the technology they actually bought? seams they licensed it to include in windows 2000. Apperently they havent licensed it to include in Vista, instead MS wrote their own version (or buy it from someone besides Symantec.) The article doesn't say this, but it should be a fair guess, otherwise why would symantic be mad.
>Symantec probly needs a few more years for their anti-virus products on Vista. if were going to spread FUD, get it right. They have to write the virii that gets past the windows AV program first. Then write the AV program. While their at it, they need to get cracking on some Mac Virus also.
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>Yeah. Its odd how some scientist can say a measurement can be perfectly repeatable when one of the major tenants of science is that there will always be variance.
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." -Yogi Berra
Is it safe to assume that these players can play non-DRM formated HD movies? In that case the only problem is the MPAA monopoly that will only sell DRM'd movies, ie a non-hardware issue.
You should be able to download a HD movie from a torrent, and record it to a HD disk, correct? I am guessing you will have to pay-up a second license for a license to encode a disk, that sucks, but thats not DRM right, thats the copyright problem instead.
I hope someone comes out with a DIVX player with a blue-ray drive. so I can put my entire DIVX movie collection on 5 or 6 Disks. I would be willing to pay $35 for the media, since about 40 hours of DVD quality movies would fit on each. The recorder would need to be under a $1000 before my employer would buy one that I could borrow though.
I was about to moderate as flamebait, because the first page of the article answers why.
Then I read the last page of the article, which basically says use a portable drive for a portable application. no-where would you use it in a actuall Desktop.
heck the mentioned use in a media center PC sucks, cause you will need many of the notebook drives to replace a single PC drive, then you'll want a raid setup to get the speed up, which ends up using more space than they save.
My first thought was, it would be much easier to mount a notebook drive in my tivo as the second drive (requires custom bracket, and cooling flow consideration), but the Tivo only has 2 IDE slots, and the biggest 7200rpm notebook ide drive I found was 60 GB. Hardly worth the effort, cheaper/easier/more convient to replace the first drive with 500Gb and still have plenty of $$$ left to pay for any extra power consumed.
the programmers use the products they are developing, during the development process.
Perhaps they are using a beta in-house MSN search server, so that most searches don't exit their intra-net, and this 80% number is all from their Apple test lab (ie just a few hundred requests a day.)
>you didn't need a spectrum analyzer to get you to buy the higher frequency phones. You would have done that anyway.
to find the biggest offender, radios do go bad.
I got a SpreadSpectrum 2.4Ghz phone, 2*2.4Ghz access point, and a 5Ghz wireless video link, and 3*2.4Ghz devices accesing the access points, and a Microwave. It all works no problem together (except the microwave kills the video link when in use.)
My brother has a cordless phone, and 1 AP, and 1 Laptop. His phone knocks his laptop off the network everytime. whats the difference? could be his A.P. isn't switching frequencies when he tried to force it. Could be any other device in his house (or unshielded cable TV) is tieing up all but one frequeny in the AP's range, or it could be a really bad phone. It is cheap to replace the phone, since the problem is obviously tied to it's use, but if it is the A.P. he will likely be fighting the same issue in the future. If a neighbors device steps into the now open frequency at next power outage/etc.
with this we could look at what the phone, PC, TV, Sat, Laptop, etc each contribute to that spectrum (and walk around the house to find the strongest area to locate.) not just which device pushed us over the edge, and is easiest to power off for a long period. IE maybe he just needs to replace a $2 coax cable, but what a pain to cut the feed for hours while he tests every other scenariao.
>What happened to presumption of innocence?
ahh I smell a new definition of presumption of innocence, we are too assume all girls under 18 are a virgin unless married, or someone is convicted of having sex with them.
In the US (well except maybe parts of the south) being told your 14 year old daughter is having sex is horrible. Then having the entire town know about it would be the end of the world to her. Now the entire country has been told...
> legally counts as sexual assault
gotcha, so by your definition: the soldiers in Iraq who were abducted, and their dead bodys found, can't be considered mudered, or even harmed, until someone is convicted? What a relief to their families that must be.
Article said she was 14, and myspace age limitation is 14 or older. Seams likely she signed up before she was 14 though (not stated.)
Their complaint seams to be that a person who said He was a high-school senior was actually 19. Well from that statement she knew she was meeting someone 3-4 years older than herself, but not 5???
>This is why I don't understand how age verification would have solved anything to begin with
In her case this does seam un-important, however they said their were previous incidents of 34 year old men mis-representing them selves and taking advantage of minors. Without those previous incidents their would likely be no case.
> The fact that they are suing makes them shitty, bad, awful, ...
easy now, they had a horrible thing happen to their daughter. It seams natural to blame someone else, because you weren't able to controll the situation as much as you thought.
I think it is likely they are genuine in fealing that MySpace was to blame, and hasn't taken the steps they think are necessary, and thus are trying to hurt them equally.
I don't know anything about myspace to see if they should do more. It does seam like, if their putting forth age information to connect minors with each other, that their should be a check-up in the system. However if no one has complained about this particular person in the past, then I don't see how you could have a succesfull chat room for minors that makes them prove who they are first.
>I called the bank ... I told them which ones were bogus
I dropped all my cards except those that allow online disputes for this. (for me) much easier to click the transactions, hit dispute, and forget about it until they call me Instead of 10 minutes on hold, then giving all my account details, mothers name, SSN digits... over a insecure link (any phone line, but especially my cordless phone at home, cell eats minutes) to get them to chat. Unfortunatly the only cards I have found were Discover and AMEX that allow this, anyone know of a no fee visa/mastercard that allows this?
The worst was my Sears MasterCard, do not get one of them. you gotta call, then snail mail back a signed thing that they must recieve within 2 weeks of you finding the fraud (5 days to get the form, 5 days to return, = 4 days to fill out.) Also stated policy of almost all visa's is you can only dispute charges in your homestate only... apperently un-enforceable, or un-enforced anyway, but then why have that hanging out their.
>Even dropping a new iceberg off a glacier will technically raise the level of the oceans slightly.
not if that glacier was floating in the water. Actually as rocks on the glaciers melt through (heavier than water), or fall off, the ocean level would drop, not rise, because the glacier displaces the same amount of water per weight, but a rock sinking doesn't. (the rock floating on a glacier was displacing it's weight in water: upon falling off, the glacier rises up displacing less water than that of the rock now sinking to the bottom...)
> This really seems absurd to me since you have the ability to vote, unless your a felon, and the ability to run for office
The fear statement would apply equally to me. However, it is not currently a big enough fear, or even the biggest fear I can deal with in my life. Theirfore it is not (yet) worth my effort to spend 95% of my time to try and change it. However it is getting above the 1-2% of my time worth, that I may actually (for the first time) be motivated enough to participate before the primarys this year.
even if it were hot enough to occupy 100% of my efforts, it is unlikely I would be able to get any changes accomplished within 10 years. Maybe with good support, and lots of luck, in 25 years I could make some subtle changes in the direction I fealt necessary, perhaps to be outdone by someone on the otherside first.
didn't know they brought back pop as a premium service. 6 years ago I paid like $5 a year for pop access, before they canned all premium services. now it's $30 a year for everything, worth considering.
> You do realize you're doing embedded code, a very small market and completely unrelated to normal code?
Do you realize that every piece of high level code written relies on dozens of embedded controllers to accomplish anything. so saying it is unrelated shows the ignorance of your typical high level programmer.
IE they have no idea how many GPU's/CPU's/PLA's in drives/disk controllers/Graphics cards/montiors/usb devices, etc that they are totally reliant on working for that piece of code to work.
You are correct that the majority of coders don't need to change anything at that level, and with the exception of not being a well rounded programer, don't profit from knowing what is working.
As the grandparent mentions power savings, that cuts across the board. The more efficient the code, the lower the CPU load, the lower the CPU requirements, the less environmental impact... It may not seam like much to your high level programer that their database sort takes 5 seconds more than it could, and runs 100* a day, and thus loads the server more, so more servers are needed with the next app... That is not lost on the google GUI programers of the world, who realize their code will not get run a 100 times a day, or a hour, or a second. but over 10000 times a second. If you aspire to have your code help everyone on the internet repeatedly, then take some pride and learn what really happens behind the scenes. If your happy to make 6 figures for many years until your job is outsourced to a cheaper code monkey, and will cry about it endlessly on BBS's that they setup for you, then don't sweat the small details.
but Gmail is all scripted so you can't simply open messages,etc in seperate tabs with a click. And their pop access is very buggy (at least for me since I use multiple clients during the day) and you can't use it to download other imap/pop emails on other servers.
Yahoo may not provide pop, but the java script html scrappers work much better than the gmail pop server. And it is really handy to create a backup of my work emails with a simple click at yahoo.
since yahoo improved their email search, no need (to me) to creat categories. but you can create folders, and they actually come across with the pop scrapers, unlike gmail.
> except they could afford to visit the western world, where cheap electronics would be no more.
well, also they would be able to buy stuff exported from the U.S., etc. That would be nice, but the ipod is not strong enough to lift China it's self.
That was why Henry Ford was considered novel, he paid his workers enough to buy his products during a time when others didn't. Thus lifting the entire city up, and then with competition for labor that trickled out beyond that cities borders...
now money, and the lust for it does change/destroy cultures. Then again thats evolution, the world changes. So these women are no longer working along side their family (perhaps because the world made it illegal for her underage child to work with her.) So drastic changes will always result from the influence of outsourcing some bad, some good.
> The tabloids probably wouldn't pay enough
maybe the tabloids wouldn't, but meteroites are worth more per pound than gold.
if you could recover a couple pounds of those 98 pounds you'll be buying any car you wanted.
> Granted the people who were involved here were exceedingly stupid.
why? I would guess their exact actions would go un-prosecuted 99% of the time, being law breakers they probably know that. If they do get prosecuted it probably cost them under a $1000, no jail time. This is a good example of how vindictive (and ingenuitive) victims can catch up to you. I have been the victim before, having a name and photo of someone for a crime under $1000 didn't get me anything. Unless you yourself do the work of getting their current address and suepenas, etc (I did, but I had more time than money back then). Even being on video, and giving your name out at a non-violent crime wouldn't be all that stupid unless you hit the wrong mark.
>They FOUND the phone. They aren't guilty of a crime.
once they used the phone in a manner the owner wouldn't approve of (ie not used in a attempt to return it) they were then commiting a crime of theft.
The actus reus of theft is usually defined as an unauthorised taking, keeping or using of another's property which must be accompanied by a mens rea of dishonesty and/or the intent to permanently deprive the owner or the person with rightful possession of that property or its use.
some of the above comment was stolen from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft
> I would never invest in a music collection that could only work with one brand of player. It amazes me how many people are willing to do so.
I bet you would never pay for water and ice. And also would never pay for oxygen (at a oxygen bar for instance.)
I am guilty of wasting many hours hacking my Tivo, and phone (also to play mp3's), and handheld to be able to play a video, etc that I could have just purchased much cheaper. I did it because I liked the challange, but it would have been much more efficient to just buy the prepackaged content for my player.
Simular with bottled water, when I go to the lake, I could use my empty Pepsi bottles, fill them with my camping pump, or a tap, instead it is much more efficient to just pay for a nice package that I can throw into a cooler with no extra thought wasted.
> If the networks can no longer count on people watching at least some ads,
I'll fall back onto the, "we always watch the superbowl adds"
in my economics classes, advertising is supposed to be good for both the consumer and the seller. When you produce such a commercial it is in the best intrest of everyone to view it. It is not in the best intrest of everyone to have forced viewing of content that does them no good that they dont want to see, when insted it would be in the best economic intrest of all to bypass the crap to choose the better advert.
IE, I am a beer drinking male, when I rewind to see the manlaw commercial again, then skip seeing some martha stewert type crap, all win. because no matter how many times I see the advert, I am not going out to buy some plastic lawn ornimate crap.
so replace one actor that wants $10 million dollars a episode, and produce at least one new commericial per new show produced, and make it informative, or have mostly naked women in it. actually no, just make it informative, not simply "buy this product because were soo cool, and we got paid to pretend like this is a good product."
cell phones are replacing the use of land lines at the consumer level. Same as VCR's are being replaced. I still have a land line, and 3 VCR's but I rarely use either, thats replacing. IE, you could take my home phone, and VCR's away, but they still work (and the same is true for most people I know.) so they stick around, but 90% of how they were used has been replaced.
>In what world has land lines _replaced_ cell phones?
I went to Chile, land lines are all but gone their, not in the new housing developments. They even charge you to call CellPhones, doesn't matter. I hear the same is true in Japan, and much of europe. Heck, the smart thing to do if visiting these places is to rent a Cell phone locally, forget the pay phones.
Not happening very fast in any of the less wealthy groups of people, but they are unlikely to have had their own phone line either.
>in which case you can probably get other services (TV/VOIP) on top of your landline.
great their is still use for the landline, because the previous use is almost replaced. (now your saying even power lines, etc are what you consider landlines, their not going away. Well hopefully within 5 years I can be all solar, and WiFi, with maybe a backup generator. more like 10 though.)
> Dropping it onto the floor from a height of five feet wouldn't have been too much work.
But then who would pay $25 for it at a swap meet. Even without that drop the only reason I could see spending $25 on a used hard-drive, was if the couples concern for the valuable info on the drive, apperently expressed at the store was, passed on to the purchaser.
Sounds like they have reason to be concerend, apperently the guy dumpster dives for drives, then inflates a rediculous price for a questionable piece of hardware. Now what difference it makes if they trust the guy to wipe the drive, or buy it back from him so they can be sure the data was handled properly? Apperently the guy had already extracted and copied all the data he wanted anyway. Maybe he was just looking for the $25 + shipping/handeling reward anyway.
Under federal law, you may lawfully transport your guns if you have the lawful right to possess them where you reside, and also in the place where you are transporting the guns to.
to comply with that using a shipping company they will only ship from a licensed gun dealer to another licensed gun dealer. But you as a owner can drive across state borders legaly (except maybe california, other states don't require out of state hunters to have local permits to carry a unloaded firearm that is in some way secured with a lock, ie in the truck.)
> Ah hmm wait, so Veritas produced a technology and patented it, Microsoft licensed/bought the software and incorporated it into Windows. Fair play. Fair play. Later on Symantec buy Veritas and now sue Microsoft
That seams true enough.
for using the technology they actually bought?
seams they licensed it to include in windows 2000. Apperently they havent licensed it to include in Vista, instead MS wrote their own version (or buy it from someone besides Symantec.) The article doesn't say this, but it should be a fair guess, otherwise why would symantic be mad.
>Symantec probly needs a few more years for their anti-virus products on Vista.
if were going to spread FUD, get it right. They have to write the virii that gets past the windows AV program first. Then write the AV program. While their at it, they need to get cracking on some Mac Virus also.