If I have a couple dozen games for Xbox, and then have a choice between buying a XB2 that doesn't support those games, or a PS3...I'll have to think about it, since they will be on level terms.
But if I can buy an XB2 and still get to play all my old games on ONE console not too, I'll be heavily favouring buying an XB2 since I can sell my original XB console and still play all my old games.
I take my XBOX with me alot, it's not that big, the Xbox isn't what takes up alot of space, it's the controllers, cables, and the plethora of games I take with.
Online Gaming, and legal software downloads (linux ISOs and packcages, etc) these all eat bandwidth and when I'm downloading a 650MB ISO, I'd like it to be done within a reasonable time, not days.
I'm also a webdesigner and I am constantly uploading files to webservers, I like to be able to do this quickly and not have to wait around killing productivity. When I need to VNC to a server I wouldn't mind a decent response, rather than an extremely choppy connection.
There ARE legitimate uses for bandwidth by home users.
In the small town I live, we have the choice b/w Cable from Shaw, or ADSL from MTS... Cable is by far the superior choice in Manitoba.
But forcing companies to provide a service...seems wrong, if you want to regulate, don't have private companies. If they want the control, the gov't should run them.
Cars don't fall out of the sky. any intereference is easily managed since you can still control the car, despite many electronics the steering and brakes "should" always stay working.
You in theory could lose your power steering and have it reverted to manual, but that's not a big deal and should happen since the power steering pump is still operated by the engine not the computer in most cars, you would most likely just mess up frivilous features in your car.
But even that is extremely unlikely. Your more likely to get in an accident because you aren't paying attention to the road because of a call, than your are because your phone messed up the computer on your car.
I doubt it. Most flight attendants, and people working at the airline aren't going to be on top of technology enough to know the difference.
Granted in a few years when the majority of phones are airline friendly, they will probably allow all phones to be used again with exceptions to the few people with older phones.
At least I hope they do this, it sure would be nice!
No, I take the time to drive to a persons house and actually visit with them.
IMHO, letters, emails, and phone calls are impersonable and should be used for mostly unimportant communication.
Granted, when vast distances seperate two people these mediums are more suited to communication than driving there, but whatever, that's just my opinion.
Because they pay the seller X amount, and the distributor X amount, and the artist X amount, and what ever other levels there are X amount and they get nothing except enough to cover the $.015 the cd/tape media cost them?
It's not my fault they failed grade 9 business, accounting and math!
In 20 years I have never written or recieved a handwritten letter.
And In case people are forgetting we have this really cool thing now, called a "PRINTER".
You send your files from the computer to the "PRINTER" and magically they appear on paper that can be saved in a format readable by everyone (that speaks the same language it was written in)
True, but with their tactics sales have been declining, when were the music sales the highest? Napster days wasn't it.
Which was also when I bought the most CDs, I downloaded alot, I had a CD burner, but I still bought alot of music.
Now with the true face of the RIAA revealed, I don't want to suppor them. The good artists will always be around, for the love of the music, if the recording companies fizzle out, something will fill the vacuum that's left.
Eventually the RIAA has to realize a change in their industry is inevitable, they can't fight it, they have to learn to roll with the punches. You look at the most successful companies in the world and they aren't stagnant, they change and become their own toughest competitors, google is constantly pushing the search engine envelope because if they don't the alltheweb/altavista team could leap frog them and become the number one SE. Intel is still running with Moores law and upgrading their technology, because if they don't AMD will and they will fall behind in the race. These companies don't wait for their competitors to make the next move because they know it will happen, they try and make the next move first. That's business the right way.
The RIAA isn't paying attention. Personally I would pay a monthly fee or a per song fee to download music legally. As long as they don't continue trying to extort us, or jack the prices up. But once I download the music, it's mine, I should be able to store it in any format and play it on any device I want. Be it CD, Cassette, MP3, or broadcast it through my house like a mini radio station. Don't try and lock it into a proprietary format so I can only run it on a M$ computer with windows media with copy protection that prevents me from listening to music, I paid for, in my car.
The problem they have now adopting this business model is that they have pissed off so many music listeners with their mafia like extortion tactics that while they may be able to create a viable model for all parties involved, there is nobody left wanting to support them.
They are becoming King Nothings, they will sue people till they are king...but they will be the kings of nobody.
Eventually someone will adopt the pay per song format and undercut the RIAA, and steal some talent, if someone with enough power can convince a few major bands to leave their current contracts and sell their next CD online with a download format that gives people what they want, the RIAA will be done for, they will have lost their opportunity because a viable alternative will exist.
I completely agree, I want to see somebody/company with money to burn, take the RIAA to the cleaners and make them wake up. Every time there is a new technology they think sales will drop, people won't buy CDs, etc, etc
Homer: [fearfully] Marge? Kids? Everything's going to be just fine.
No go upstairs, and pack your bags...we're going to start a new
life...under the sea.
[calypso music starts]
[Homer dances with fish as Lisa plays a seahorse saxophone,
Marge a squid harp, and Bart the xylophone clams] Homer: [eats a dancing fish, sings]
Under the sea, under the sea,
[eats a couple more fish]
There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans
Under the sea!
[eats a line of seahorses, grabs an escaping one]
[eats a live crab as though it were a shrimp]
[eats a pair of dancing fish, then a snail who tries to escape]
[stands there with fish skeletons floating about] Marge: Homer, that's your solution to everything: to move under the sea.
It's not going to happen! Homer: Not with _that_ attitude!
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Yet another sco article...
The SCO execs and shareholders must have been first in line on free labotomy day at Dr Nick Riviera's...
Put $50 on the bookies winning for me ;)
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
How do you figure?
If I have a couple dozen games for Xbox, and then have a choice between buying a XB2 that doesn't support those games, or a PS3...I'll have to think about it, since they will be on level terms.
But if I can buy an XB2 and still get to play all my old games on ONE console not too, I'll be heavily favouring buying an XB2 since I can sell my original XB console and still play all my old games.
Yep...really a bad thing...
I take my XBOX with me alot, it's not that big, the Xbox isn't what takes up alot of space, it's the controllers, cables, and the plethora of games I take with.
Do they care?
They'll make more money with M$ since the XBOX is selling better than the "production on hold gamecube"
key word being "peaceably";
"links to bomb-making instructions, the site
caught the ire of the FBI for advocating the
overthrow of the U.S. government"
Last I checked...bombs weren't peaceful.
Agreed, I said subsidies, but that was more of an example, I was really just wanting some sort of involvement, in any capacity.
But Canada importing solar power wouldn't make sense. We have a relatively clean source of power, hyrdo-electric.
If governemnts subsidized people to install these instead of new shingles, this would severely cut down energy concerns.
Of course electric companies would complain, but they will still be needed, solar power won't provide enough power.
hmm...actually then my electric company would just charge more for less so they don't lose profits...damn
I'm sure alot of people who work for telemarketers have their names on the list just so they don't get calls.
Online Gaming, and legal software downloads (linux ISOs and packcages, etc) these all eat bandwidth and when I'm downloading a 650MB ISO, I'd like it to be done within a reasonable time, not days.
... Cable is by far the superior choice in Manitoba.
I'm also a webdesigner and I am constantly uploading files to webservers, I like to be able to do this quickly and not have to wait around killing productivity. When I need to VNC to a server I wouldn't mind a decent response, rather than an extremely choppy connection.
There ARE legitimate uses for bandwidth by home users.
In the small town I live, we have the choice b/w Cable from Shaw, or ADSL from MTS
But forcing companies to provide a service...seems wrong, if you want to regulate, don't have private companies. If they want the control, the gov't should run them.
In my area, ADSL is much slower than Cable, I'll stick with my cable and my connection that isn't capped as low as ADSL
...somehow I don't think a pacemaker can generate that kind of interference with it's limited electric capacity.
The plane is more likely to interfere with the pacemaker!
Cars don't fall out of the sky. any intereference is easily managed since you can still control the car, despite many electronics the steering and brakes "should" always stay working.
You in theory could lose your power steering and have it reverted to manual, but that's not a big deal and should happen since the power steering pump is still operated by the engine not the computer in most cars, you would most likely just mess up frivilous features in your car.
But even that is extremely unlikely. Your more likely to get in an accident because you aren't paying attention to the road because of a call, than your are because your phone messed up the computer on your car.
I doubt it. Most flight attendants, and people working at the airline aren't going to be on top of technology enough to know the difference.
Granted in a few years when the majority of phones are airline friendly, they will probably allow all phones to be used again with exceptions to the few people with older phones.
At least I hope they do this, it sure would be nice!
But isn't that illegal? Some sort of stock market manipulation, by lieing to raise your stock price so you can sell it higher?
Can I still use my old intellivision games with this?
Well the company is nearly 20 years old, it's not like this name is something new...
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http://www.fossil.com/CompanyInfo/CompanyHistor
No, I take the time to drive to a persons house and actually visit with them.
IMHO, letters, emails, and phone calls are impersonable and should be used for mostly unimportant communication.
Granted, when vast distances seperate two people these mediums are more suited to communication than driving there, but whatever, that's just my opinion.
How do you figure no money is made?
Because they pay the seller X amount, and the distributor X amount, and the artist X amount, and what ever other levels there are X amount and they get nothing except enough to cover the $.015 the cd/tape media cost them?
It's not my fault they failed grade 9 business, accounting and math!
In 20 years I have never written or recieved a handwritten letter.
And In case people are forgetting we have this really cool thing now, called a "PRINTER".
You send your files from the computer to the "PRINTER" and magically they appear on paper that can be saved in a format readable by everyone (that speaks the same language it was written in)
True, but with their tactics sales have been declining, when were the music sales the highest? Napster days wasn't it.
Which was also when I bought the most CDs, I downloaded alot, I had a CD burner, but I still bought alot of music.
Now with the true face of the RIAA revealed, I don't want to suppor them. The good artists will always be around, for the love of the music, if the recording companies fizzle out, something will fill the vacuum that's left.
Eventually the RIAA has to realize a change in their industry is inevitable, they can't fight it, they have to learn to roll with the punches. You look at the most successful companies in the world and they aren't stagnant, they change and become their own toughest competitors, google is constantly pushing the search engine envelope because if they don't the alltheweb/altavista team could leap frog them and become the number one SE. Intel is still running with Moores law and upgrading their technology, because if they don't AMD will and they will fall behind in the race. These companies don't wait for their competitors to make the next move because they know it will happen, they try and make the next move first. That's business the right way.
The RIAA isn't paying attention. Personally I would pay a monthly fee or a per song fee to download music legally. As long as they don't continue trying to extort us, or jack the prices up. But once I download the music, it's mine, I should be able to store it in any format and play it on any device I want. Be it CD, Cassette, MP3, or broadcast it through my house like a mini radio station. Don't try and lock it into a proprietary format so I can only run it on a M$ computer with windows media with copy protection that prevents me from listening to music, I paid for, in my car.
The problem they have now adopting this business model is that they have pissed off so many music listeners with their mafia like extortion tactics that while they may be able to create a viable model for all parties involved, there is nobody left wanting to support them.
They are becoming King Nothings, they will sue people till they are king...but they will be the kings of nobody.
Eventually someone will adopt the pay per song format and undercut the RIAA, and steal some talent, if someone with enough power can convince a few major bands to leave their current contracts and sell their next CD online with a download format that gives people what they want, the RIAA will be done for, they will have lost their opportunity because a viable alternative will exist.
It's only a matter of time.
I completely agree, I want to see somebody/company with money to burn, take the RIAA to the cleaners and make them wake up. Every time there is a new technology they think sales will drop, people won't buy CDs, etc, etc
Then their sales go up even more...
Learn from history allready!
"...city at the bottom of the sea."
Homer: [fearfully] Marge? Kids? Everything's going to be just fine.
No go upstairs, and pack your bags...we're going to start a new
life...under the sea.
[calypso music starts]
[Homer dances with fish as Lisa plays a seahorse saxophone,
Marge a squid harp, and Bart the xylophone clams]
Homer: [eats a dancing fish, sings]
Under the sea, under the sea,
[eats a couple more fish]
There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans
Under the sea!
[eats a line of seahorses, grabs an escaping one]
[eats a live crab as though it were a shrimp]
[eats a pair of dancing fish, then a snail who tries to escape]
[stands there with fish skeletons floating about]
Marge: Homer, that's your solution to everything: to move under the sea.
It's not going to happen!
Homer: Not with _that_ attitude!