Makes me feel all warm and gooey inside, but not in that comfortable, sated, internally glowing way. In that queasy, rumbling, internally bleeding, hosting-an-Alien-baby kind of way.
so, uhh, like 'bad' then?
Seriously though it's hard to believe that all those people that get enrages when they think they've been cut off, or just can't stand to not be in the shortest line, or wish bitch about ticket 'quotas' or any amount of mundane crap just dont' seem to give a damn about being, basically, bought and sold like cattle.
Be sure to vote in your next election - it might be your last. The democratic vote would appear to be a highly endangered animal in yankville.
a commericial product which allows the user to selectively perform their own filtering.
Censorware typically carries access control designed to prevent the user from disabling the filter. Remember that the user is not always the owner, and the owner may in fact be a state government that mandates use of a particular censorware product in its public libraries in response to a federal mandate that it implement some censorware system.
Which still doesn't make censorware==censorship. Nor is censorship always a bad thing: those that think so prob don't have children.
Where did I bring children into this? Under the current law, a federally funded public library is permitted to refuse to uncensor any or all blocked material, even over an adult patron's wishes.
You didn't - I. Censorship isn't always a bad thing, I gave an example. We've also stryed somewhat from the original topic: namely company-X can sell whatever they want, if you don't like how joe-bob has used said products that's one thing, don't scream at company-X.
Personally I prefer the taste of diet soda (at least, Diet Coke) over the corn syrupy stuff. As for aspartame, I'm not too worried about a molecule that's mainly two harmless (except to phenlyketoneuretics) amino acids, and thirty years of consuming the stuff hasn't hurt me so far.
Ah yes, the ever popular statistical sample of one.
a commericial product which allows the user to selectively perform their own filtering.
Censorware typically carries access control designed to prevent the user from disabling the filter. Remember that the user is not always the owner, and the owner may in fact be a state government that mandates use of a particular censorware product in its public libraries in response to a federal mandate that it implement some censorware system.
Which still doesn't make censorware==censorship. Nor is censorship always a bad thing: those that think so prob don't have children.
No, they just taste bad, are (like reg soda) diuretics, and aspartame seems to have trouble dodging claims about fudged research for it's FDA approval.....
The problem with that poem is that Hitler was a Socialist.
How is that a problem? Does the poem fail to illustrate the ultimate consquence of standing idly by as others' freedoms are revoked?
Nope, no problem there. There is a problem however in likening state sponsored discrimination with a commericial product which allows the user to selectively perform their own filtering. The two couldn't be further apart.
I think the logic behind this (not that I think it should be applied here) essentially stems from the fact that nobody's ever walked into a school and massacred people with anti-gun rhetoric.
Actually, no-one's ever walked into a school and massacred people with pro-gun rhetoric, either.
The day Microsoft gets hauled in to court to take responsibility is the day the flood gates are opened on software liability in general. Say goodbye to open source. How do you think Linus or R.M.S. would fair against a volume of lawsuits that wouldn't even make Microsoft flinch? How many developers would risk open source development if there was liability involved?
You usually have a lot more liability if a) you're selling the product and b) marketing the product as having specific qualities.
Which just begs the question how one can claim, implicitly or otherwise, so much in a marketing compain and (legaly) expect users (targetted market) to accept a licence which basically says "The marketing is a dream - we shan't be held responsible for actually living up to any of our claims. Nothing is ever our fault".
mmm, I have to agree though I'd take a slightly different tone - It's note that the 'alowance' is innovative it's that, on paper at least, it's such an amazingly good implementation of said certificate.
Stuff that 'just works' is good, stuff that works and looks good and has had all the sharp edges lovingly polished off is, well, somewhat better;)
It should be noted that US hardware for human space travel is also based on designs which are around three decades old (with some upgrades). Ditto Russian hardware.
Mmmmm, I'd rather be 30 odd years behond and moving then 30 years behind 'cause I spent a generation gazing into my navel
The coolest thing is that you actually got modded informative...
I, for one, would like to welcome our new methuselan, whiney, oversexed, forgetfull overlords.:)
Seriously though there's something to be said for limiting rights of corporations & _severely_ restricting accumulations of IP. Work For Hire, and transfer of IP ownership is a crock.
Its not like they are going to share their own music on a p2p network.
Which is fine, I guess, 'cause the RIAA doesn't actually own anything. They're just a lobby group for a bunch of big labels, who own distribution rights to alot of music.
Another option is icecast. I've run an icecast station, mostly for streaming around the house, for quite a while. Recently I've recently been spending more time on computers in other locations and so took a couple hours to hack up a php/perl front end for ices to take requests with. Bandwidth & client limiting, flexible playlists plus the ability, via apache, to access (passwd protected) shares - it's worked out beautifully.
Mmm I had a Rio Volt, 1st gen, and loved it. After much abuse i needed to replace it. My options, locally in Jan, weren't so good. To replace it featurewise pretty much required a Volt SP250 which went for about $75 less then the 5gb iPod I chose to buy instead. I'm sure I've saved at least that much in AA's since then.
You know, a really cool way to get around this is have the worm only trigger an infection when a Slammer infection attempt is detected. This way, you'll only hit infected machines. Then, coupled with an expiry time, this thing could be relatively benign (well, other than the whole "break into computers and install software without permission" thing).
Oh, well that's easy. Simply append a TOS the reads something like 'By accepting this virus you accept the following license and all it's terms...."
Only 10 gigs!?!
im still using my 5gig 1st gen that ive had since a month after release and it is amazing still. The only time the size is an issue is when i use it in firewire disk mode. i even think that its better smaller. it makes me choose my playlists for it more carefully. its noit like i need the entirity of my library on it at any given time. in fact i usually leave about a gig open, JIC theres a file i need to throw on it.
what i really want is an uber-cheap uber-small 3-5gig model, id be in hog heaven.
and to be on topic, the interface is the best part of the ipod, it is the essence of good design. the second you put the ipod in your hand you know how to use it.
I've got a 5gb iPod which, in comparison with the 75ish gb mp3/audio collection seems pretty small. Until, that is, one realizes that it's the _perfect_ audio book device and I've usually got ~ 60 hours worth of books and another 20hrs or so of fav tunes. This is generally good for about 3.5gb. Coupled with the fast transfer, what do i really need a larger device for?
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Actually, you don't have to use MusicMatch (which sucks as an iPod interface, IMHO). I've been using the free ephpod package with my new 30 gig iPod, and I'm very happy with it. MUCH easier to use than MusicMatch, with lots of great features.
I'll put in another vote for ephpod - it's is great. I actually bought a 5gb mac iPod, all the was available locally, and so never had any 'retail' windows software, but the alternatives have been excellent. Having used creative devices before I've found the availibility of 3rd party apps to be refreshing.
The decision between the 5gb iPod & a 20gb nomad was made largely on the failures of creative labs rather then the strengths of each product. I really don't need to buy another piece of poorly supported crap with nonfunctional drivers and a 'mail in X' where X != rebate. Ever.
notable Martian craft go plunging into the ground at around 300 mph
mph? What's that in bushels per hectare? How ironic that you sneer at impacting craft when you can't even be bothered to write metres per second.
I guess it's a good thing they've got the (metric) Canadians then eh?
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Seriously though it's hard to believe that all those people that get enrages when they think they've been cut off, or just can't stand to not be in the shortest line, or wish bitch about ticket 'quotas' or any amount of mundane crap just dont' seem to give a damn about being, basically, bought and sold like cattle.
Be sure to vote in your next election - it might be your last. The democratic vote would appear to be a highly endangered animal in yankville.
Now if you want to complain about corporations holding more power/money with which to voice their 'opinions' that's another, much broader, matter.
No, they just taste bad, are (like reg soda) diuretics, and aspartame seems to have trouble dodging claims about fudged research for it's FDA approval.....
Save armed forces recruiters of course....
Or how about "That Fred sure knows how to jaywalk"?
Stuff that 'just works' is good, stuff that works and looks good and has had all the sharp edges lovingly polished off is, well, somewhat better ;)
phones are evil.
Which is fine, I guess, 'cause the RIAA doesn't actually own anything. They're just a lobby group for a bunch of big labels, who own distribution rights to alot of music.
Another option is icecast. I've run an icecast station, mostly for streaming around the house, for quite a while. Recently I've recently been spending more time on computers in other locations and so took a couple hours to hack up a php/perl front end for ices to take requests with. Bandwidth & client limiting, flexible playlists plus the ability, via apache, to access (passwd protected) shares - it's worked out beautifully.
Mmm I had a Rio Volt, 1st gen, and loved it. After much abuse i needed to replace it. My options, locally in Jan, weren't so good. To replace it featurewise pretty much required a Volt SP250 which went for about $75 less then the 5gb iPod I chose to buy instead. I'm sure I've saved at least that much in AA's since then.
Oh, well that's easy. Simply append a TOS the reads something like 'By accepting this virus you accept the following license and all it's terms...."
The decision between the 5gb iPod & a 20gb nomad was made largely on the failures of creative labs rather then the strengths of each product. I really don't need to buy another piece of poorly supported crap with nonfunctional drivers and a 'mail in X' where X != rebate. Ever.
OTOH here's a 'techy' guy running winXP Home. I assume many things surprise him.
Man I can't read my own perl, I can't imagine buying a book simply for the pleasure of reading someone else's
Or Mr. Ford simply found a very effecient (smuggler's) route through a (presumably) complex mess of bodies moving in (at least) three dimensions?