If the chances of getting caught are negligible, then yeah, it's free. The subtle difference there is that by taking the Snickers bar you necessarily deprive someone else of it - not true where 'theft' of 'intellectual property' like software or (music) data is concerned.
Don't forget that Apple's approach to DRM (and it's the pragmatic one) is to make it good enough to keep the record industry onside and bad enough to keep the punter onside. If/when Apple manages to make the iTMS strong enough to not fear the wrath of the music industry, they might change their policy on iTunes DRM.
Anyone who has to join a club to feel like a human being needs psychological help.
Motorcycles are the No. 1 cause of uneccesary noise where I live, boy-racers with loud pipes are the next worse - even really LOUD stereos are nowhere near as bad.
Not tue. The delivery model already works just fine where 20 or more SUV trips to the supermarket can be replaced by each (Diesel!) delivery truck round trip.
Efficiency is one thing, total power is another. A solar furnace can collect FAR more energy than a PV panel can (and with cheaper, lower tech equipment), and thus any efficiency deficiency will not cause problems.
Maybe you could get your heavy groceries DELIVERED - this was common practice in the days before everyone had a car and makes huge sense in terms of energy economy. This practice is coming back in the Uk now due to the popularity of internet grocery shopping...
Could GM not just have sold that responsibilty on to a third party? these cars were pretty advanced, and would have made wonderful geek projects for those nerds rich and committed enough to keep them on the road. The decision to scrap these cars is absolutely shameful and, coming at a time when Toyota is comitting huge resources to electric vehicles, demonstrates quite conclusively that GM really is the industrial dinosaur we all imagine it to be.
We have eight rack mounted servers and video workstations on the other side of a patio-door for heat, noise and cabling reasons. It's much more sensible to use RF peripherals than have tens of metres of unnecessary cabling.
Isn't obvious to ANY self-respecting geek that the easiest way BY FAR to save energy in personal transport is NOT to replace your vehicle? Combine that with a little judicious walking and cycling and and all the hybrids in the world couldn't touch the energy savings you'd make.
I've seen this done both reasonably (where the 5-10 major economies head up the list and the rest of the world follows on alphabetically - USA, Germany, UK, France, Japan etc) and unreasonably (where the USA is justy stuck at the top of the list and no allowance is made for address formats that don't conform to a USA-like template). I think the former strategy is very intelligent, the latter just lazy.
We have a Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard. Great, the keyboard does just waht it's supposed to do, and is really comfortable on you lap too. Unfortunately the mouse, pretty though it is, can't actually work AT ALL if the wireless base station is BEHIND it.
Nice directional aerial action, Logitech. Makes the stupid thing COMPLETELY USELESS to us.
They already patented just such a device - it's basically a conventional mouse with an iPod style click wheel where the buttons and scroll wheel would be on an MS style mouse.
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If no-one reads Datslosh, why do you give a fuck about your poxy karma?
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That's "the low self-esteem society' isn't it?
If the chances of getting caught are negligible, then yeah, it's free. The subtle difference there is that by taking the Snickers bar you necessarily deprive someone else of it - not true where 'theft' of 'intellectual property' like software or (music) data is concerned.
If something CAN be copied AS IF IT WERE free, then it IS FREE, irrespective of whether or not you think it ought to be.
The artist?
How much of that 99c goes to the artist (and since when did a bit of singing qualify a person as an 'artist' anyway?), I wonder?
It will until our Chinese masters decree it no longer to be so.
Don't forget that Apple's approach to DRM (and it's the pragmatic one) is to make it good enough to keep the record industry onside and bad enough to keep the punter onside. If/when Apple manages to make the iTMS strong enough to not fear the wrath of the music industry, they might change their policy on iTunes DRM.
Anyone who has to join a club to feel like a human being needs psychological help.
Motorcycles are the No. 1 cause of uneccesary noise where I live, boy-racers with loud pipes are the next worse - even really LOUD stereos are nowhere near as bad.
Not tue. The delivery model already works just fine where 20 or more SUV trips to the supermarket can be replaced by each (Diesel!) delivery truck round trip.
Efficiency is one thing, total power is another. A solar furnace can collect FAR more energy than a PV panel can (and with cheaper, lower tech equipment), and thus any efficiency deficiency will not cause problems.
Maybe you could get your heavy groceries DELIVERED - this was common practice in the days before everyone had a car and makes huge sense in terms of energy economy. This practice is coming back in the Uk now due to the popularity of internet grocery shopping...
Doesn't matter anyway, solar furnaces don't need PV cells, just mirrors and tracking motors.
Could GM not just have sold that responsibilty on to a third party? these cars were pretty advanced, and would have made wonderful geek projects for those nerds rich and committed enough to keep them on the road. The decision to scrap these cars is absolutely shameful and, coming at a time when Toyota is comitting huge resources to electric vehicles, demonstrates quite conclusively that GM really is the industrial dinosaur we all imagine it to be.
We have eight rack mounted servers and video workstations on the other side of a patio-door for heat, noise and cabling reasons. It's much more sensible to use RF peripherals than have tens of metres of unnecessary cabling.
Isn't obvious to ANY self-respecting geek that the easiest way BY FAR to save energy in personal transport is NOT to replace your vehicle? Combine that with a little judicious walking and cycling and and all the hybrids in the world couldn't touch the energy savings you'd make.
I've seen this done both reasonably (where the 5-10 major economies head up the list and the rest of the world follows on alphabetically - USA, Germany, UK, France, Japan etc) and unreasonably (where the USA is justy stuck at the top of the list and no allowance is made for address formats that don't conform to a USA-like template). I think the former strategy is very intelligent, the latter just lazy.
We have a Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard. Great, the keyboard does just waht it's supposed to do, and is really comfortable on you lap too. Unfortunately the mouse, pretty though it is, can't actually work AT ALL if the wireless base station is BEHIND it.
Nice directional aerial action, Logitech. Makes the stupid thing COMPLETELY USELESS to us.
They already patented just such a device - it's basically a conventional mouse with an iPod style click wheel where the buttons and scroll wheel would be on an MS style mouse.
Shrek?
Are you taking the piss?
I think it was E E 'Doc' Smith's "Lord Tedric and the Balck Knight oif the Iron Sphere".
And that was shit too.
"Good animation and effects + bad story + bad acting = total flop"
Are you sure that's right? Lucas himself has been using precisely this formula for deacades with amazing success, and he's not the only one either.
No.
Doesn't it remind you of the Flintstones?
What does "anal retentive" actually mean?
Strictly speaking, I don't think you can call that thing HAIR.