It is pretty clear that the MPAA doesn't want piracy of any kind. Even if they have to spend (or give to the right government official) millions to save a few pennies and piss off generation of people to come.
I guess the Christians are going to be waving banners over the naming of this one. Are they going to sue for false advertising when they realize this isn't the Apocalypse the Bible spoke of?
Illegal? You're using their software, you have a right to see what the software blocks, otherwise, lets all start learning Chinese and firewalling outside access.
How can the absence of something be called a copyright violation? Unless you're looking at the quantum superstate of blank media (which would mean that anything that can exist on blank media would exist on it until it was observed), which would further enrage the RIAA and push them to sue people who produce blank media.
Companies should be able to benefit from their foresight or luck (ie, buying cable lines, etc). However, when no competition can come into the area without spending millions on a second cable infrastructure, there's a problem. Most cable or DSL providers can do next to anything, service wise. Broadband might make another step and become like long distance and charge a per-minute fee. This, of course, after they shave down your speeds by about 50%. Its almost as if the more people that subscribe to your network, the less money the company makes, so they must charge more and more for your slowly-declining service.
Complaining about being yelled at or fired for wasting the company's money and time is like complaining about having to say the pledge of alliegence when your public education is paid for by the government. If you want to listen to and download MP3s on the job, start your own business. While I agree that being able to listen to music while you're working is a good comfort, its not the end of the world if your company bans it. When I went to high school, it was perfectly all right for 20 students in a classroom to watch streaming rap videos in RM format, which choked our measly T3, but it wasn't alright for me to download MP3s and listen to them.
Not like this didn't happen before, at times. Back in colonial times, people's houses weren't exactly built well, and half of them probably had no glass. Anyone could sit around and hear your every words in almost total privacy. You could go to the local store and say, 'the usual, please' the they would know what you meant. They might even suggest items. People weren't demanding total privacy back then. Now, people get pissy when their IM programs don't come with an 'invisible' option or their LiveJournal doesn't have a 'no-read' post option.
Well, for DDR, a 20-year range is pretty nice. I doubt many people over 30 would be willing to do such 'hardcore' activities when 30 is the age where back problems, heart trouble, bone diseases hit. DDR is a BAD thing when your bones or back is weak. Or you could have a heart attack.
There is a 5th mix machine at West Town Mall in Knoxville, TN. We have a big community of players of all age ranges. From about 10 years old to like 30 something. It surprised me that this huge community actually formed, its like going to a bar or something, where everyone knows your name, except, you don't drink, you play DDR and do crazy shit like Dead End on Maniac 4 times in a row (I couldn't feel most of my body, except for my stomach muscles which were trying to kill themselves)
I live fifteen minutes from UTK, and have lots of friends that go there. Judging by the fact that they still attend, I don't think they have a NEThillbillies projcet. Maybe the Chattanooga location has it.
Why should the company have to warn people what they're doing? If I want something, I take an in-depth look at all the options available to help me get that certain something. This includes at least trying to understand EULAs, paying attention to install screens, and reading up on the topic. Most people are just like, "Ooh, porn, must install Kazaa." so they aren't thinking about p2p, or free software, they're thinking about porn. The whole point of p2p software is to share your files, not to leech off of everyone else. If they share their whole drive, tough, its another lesson to learn.
Where's your battery-power going to go when the mains fail? How is it going to be stopped from running back into the mains? Thats the same problem with smoke-detectors that plug into the wall and have a backup battery. When the power fails, the battery is pretty much instantly drained back into the main.
And that's perfectly fair, if you ask me. Not that the Nevada judicial system is owned by the various casino organizations, but that people can be shitlisted. I wouldn't want some cheater/criminal trying to cheat or steal in my casino. However, it would be a lot better if the cheater/criminal could protest his case before the .
Why should they care? ISP's in the US for the most part anyway, frown on using home networks or NATs. They will promptly tell you to subscribe to their small business service (read: pay 2x the normal price) or remove your network. In one case, it makes sense. Tech support doesn't want to have to help people set up their networks, and truthfully, companies can't afford the time/effort to train techies in setting up networks. Only basic problems. The small portion that can tech support networks is sent to the commercial-class tech support. I do know, however, that since they limit the speed, the bandwidth used should be ignored. Since my DSL line is limited to 1.5MBps, I should be able to use it 100% of the time and only have to pay my base rate. If they don't like it, they can upgrade their backbones, or drop DSL. Why should we have to pay for their bad decisions?
Its hard enough to pay for DSL when you don't have a job, let alone how hard it will be when Bellsouth decides to raise its rates a few hundred percent because we have no other choice BUT Bellsouth for DSL. I've seen gas stations do the same thing. In a town where there's only one gas station, notice that the prices there are always near a dime higher than other places? Same difference, except for you can't easily get other providers to give you service. This is why all the DSL providers tell you that they won't know if you can have service until you're actually moved in an situated in a new house or apartment.
I can see it now. Other countries are going to start screaming about how unfair it is that we don't have to risk pilots to bomb stuff. It would be nice, however, if the pilots actually had a cockpit wherever they were stationed to control the drone. Controlling a drone with a small joystick and a few flight controls in front of a B&W television is just annoying. Besides, it would take the fun out of warfare.
I'm sorry, but Intel shouldn't be allowed to do anything here. Did the guy forge his email headers, sell the employee email addresses, and spam them daily with various advertisements? No. Spammers do all of these things, and they are incredibly hard to prosecute. If Intel wins, spammers will have to think twice about spamming. If Intel loses, the courts are at least informed enough to know that Intel lost NOTHING in this 'attack' (for lack of better word). A few seconds per employee to delete the email. That adds up to a lot, but if each Intel employee lost 10 seconds to remove/read/whatever that email, it doesn't seem like a big loss to me. Its a victory for nerds either way.
Apparently the government doesn't want to adopt this bill. Well, that could be wrong. Maybe the person in question didn't want the government to adopt the bill. Regardless, the rest of tne Senate should have called his shit on it and ignored him, going on to adopt the bill.
I doubt it, conszidering us tech support nerds currently aren't called transistor-medics. I doubt tech support would be fiddling around with the individual electron paths of a computer.
"MSN just posted a story saying that the U.S. is under nuclear attack! Check it out! "
"Whoa, this story has convinced me to switch from 56k to DSL. It gave me 50 reasons."
"You must be looking at the wrong link..Wait..you're right..50 reasons. Lets order DSL."
"Alright."
At my old high school, it wasn't p2p that was the problem. It was people streaming shit from other networks. On our tiny t-1, we had at least 10 people in our room listening to rap at max volume playing full screen music videos streaming off of a server. The admin responded immediately to the threat by blocking off Slashdot, AntiOnline, Something Awful, and all the other sites I read. I promptly downloaded Kazaa and began to download anime to watch. Moral of this story is, find the real cause of the problem, and act on that, instead of just against the nerds.
I've played violent video games since I purchased a NES back in the day when they were king of the consoles. Since then, many variations of Doom, Wolf3d, Tribes, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tourney, and a bit of WW2OL for my sim-side. Am I plottng the death of people en masse? No, not really. Maybe I kill people daily on Counter-Strike. Maybe I enjoy killing them. Does this mean I want to go buy a tactical machine pistol in real life and go on a killing spree? No, it doesn't. I've not once had the urge to go on killing spree's thanks to violent video games. The killing spree thoughts come from just being around people in general, not from video games.
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It is pretty clear that the MPAA doesn't want piracy of any kind. Even if they have to spend (or give to the right government official) millions to save a few pennies and piss off generation of people to come.
I guess the Christians are going to be waving banners over the naming of this one. Are they going to sue for false advertising when they realize this isn't the Apocalypse the Bible spoke of?
Illegal? You're using their software, you have a right to see what the software blocks, otherwise, lets all start learning Chinese and firewalling outside access.
How can the absence of something be called a copyright violation? Unless you're looking at the quantum superstate of blank media (which would mean that anything that can exist on blank media would exist on it until it was observed), which would further enrage the RIAA and push them to sue people who produce blank media.
Companies should be able to benefit from their foresight or luck (ie, buying cable lines, etc). However, when no competition can come into the area without spending millions on a second cable infrastructure, there's a problem. Most cable or DSL providers can do next to anything, service wise. Broadband might make another step and become like long distance and charge a per-minute fee. This, of course, after they shave down your speeds by about 50%. Its almost as if the more people that subscribe to your network, the less money the company makes, so they must charge more and more for your slowly-declining service.
Complaining about being yelled at or fired for wasting the company's money and time is like complaining about having to say the pledge of alliegence when your public education is paid for by the government. If you want to listen to and download MP3s on the job, start your own business. While I agree that being able to listen to music while you're working is a good comfort, its not the end of the world if your company bans it. When I went to high school, it was perfectly all right for 20 students in a classroom to watch streaming rap videos in RM format, which choked our measly T3, but it wasn't alright for me to download MP3s and listen to them.
Not like this didn't happen before, at times. Back in colonial times, people's houses weren't exactly built well, and half of them probably had no glass. Anyone could sit around and hear your every words in almost total privacy. You could go to the local store and say, 'the usual, please' the they would know what you meant. They might even suggest items. People weren't demanding total privacy back then. Now, people get pissy when their IM programs don't come with an 'invisible' option or their LiveJournal doesn't have a 'no-read' post option.
Mmm. Mars.
Well, for DDR, a 20-year range is pretty nice. I doubt many people over 30 would be willing to do such 'hardcore' activities when 30 is the age where back problems, heart trouble, bone diseases hit. DDR is a BAD thing when your bones or back is weak. Or you could have a heart attack.
There is a 5th mix machine at West Town Mall in Knoxville, TN. We have a big community of players of all age ranges. From about 10 years old to like 30 something. It surprised me that this huge community actually formed, its like going to a bar or something, where everyone knows your name, except, you don't drink, you play DDR and do crazy shit like Dead End on Maniac 4 times in a row (I couldn't feel most of my body, except for my stomach muscles which were trying to kill themselves)
I live fifteen minutes from UTK, and have lots of friends that go there. Judging by the fact that they still attend, I don't think they have a NEThillbillies projcet. Maybe the Chattanooga location has it.
Why should the company have to warn people what they're doing? If I want something, I take an in-depth look at all the options available to help me get that certain something. This includes at least trying to understand EULAs, paying attention to install screens, and reading up on the topic. Most people are just like, "Ooh, porn, must install Kazaa." so they aren't thinking about p2p, or free software, they're thinking about porn. The whole point of p2p software is to share your files, not to leech off of everyone else. If they share their whole drive, tough, its another lesson to learn.
Where's your battery-power going to go when the mains fail? How is it going to be stopped from running back into the mains? Thats the same problem with smoke-detectors that plug into the wall and have a backup battery. When the power fails, the battery is pretty much instantly drained back into the main.
And that's perfectly fair, if you ask me. Not that the Nevada judicial system is owned by the various casino organizations, but that people can be shitlisted. I wouldn't want some cheater/criminal trying to cheat or steal in my casino. However, it would be a lot better if the cheater/criminal could protest his case before the .
Why should they care? ISP's in the US for the most part anyway, frown on using home networks or NATs. They will promptly tell you to subscribe to their small business service (read: pay 2x the normal price) or remove your network. In one case, it makes sense. Tech support doesn't want to have to help people set up their networks, and truthfully, companies can't afford the time/effort to train techies in setting up networks. Only basic problems. The small portion that can tech support networks is sent to the commercial-class tech support. I do know, however, that since they limit the speed, the bandwidth used should be ignored. Since my DSL line is limited to 1.5MBps, I should be able to use it 100% of the time and only have to pay my base rate. If they don't like it, they can upgrade their backbones, or drop DSL. Why should we have to pay for their bad decisions?
Its hard enough to pay for DSL when you don't have a job, let alone how hard it will be when Bellsouth decides to raise its rates a few hundred percent because we have no other choice BUT Bellsouth for DSL. I've seen gas stations do the same thing. In a town where there's only one gas station, notice that the prices there are always near a dime higher than other places? Same difference, except for you can't easily get other providers to give you service. This is why all the DSL providers tell you that they won't know if you can have service until you're actually moved in an situated in a new house or apartment.
Some songs, like MAX300, require response times faster than SDRAM.
I can see it now. Other countries are going to start screaming about how unfair it is that we don't have to risk pilots to bomb stuff. It would be nice, however, if the pilots actually had a cockpit wherever they were stationed to control the drone. Controlling a drone with a small joystick and a few flight controls in front of a B&W television is just annoying. Besides, it would take the fun out of warfare.
I'm sorry, but Intel shouldn't be allowed to do anything here. Did the guy forge his email headers, sell the employee email addresses, and spam them daily with various advertisements? No. Spammers do all of these things, and they are incredibly hard to prosecute. If Intel wins, spammers will have to think twice about spamming. If Intel loses, the courts are at least informed enough to know that Intel lost NOTHING in this 'attack' (for lack of better word). A few seconds per employee to delete the email. That adds up to a lot, but if each Intel employee lost 10 seconds to remove/read/whatever that email, it doesn't seem like a big loss to me. Its a victory for nerds either way.
Apparently the government doesn't want to adopt this bill. Well, that could be wrong. Maybe the person in question didn't want the government to adopt the bill. Regardless, the rest of tne Senate should have called his shit on it and ignored him, going on to adopt the bill.
I doubt it, conszidering us tech support nerds currently aren't called transistor-medics. I doubt tech support would be fiddling around with the individual electron paths of a computer.
"MSN just posted a story saying that the U.S. is under nuclear attack! Check it out! " "Whoa, this story has convinced me to switch from 56k to DSL. It gave me 50 reasons." "You must be looking at the wrong link..Wait..you're right..50 reasons. Lets order DSL." "Alright."
This just in, cracking commercial software or encrypted data is illegal. Film at 11.
At my old high school, it wasn't p2p that was the problem. It was people streaming shit from other networks. On our tiny t-1, we had at least 10 people in our room listening to rap at max volume playing full screen music videos streaming off of a server. The admin responded immediately to the threat by blocking off Slashdot, AntiOnline, Something Awful, and all the other sites I read. I promptly downloaded Kazaa and began to download anime to watch. Moral of this story is, find the real cause of the problem, and act on that, instead of just against the nerds.
I've played violent video games since I purchased a NES back in the day when they were king of the consoles. Since then, many variations of Doom, Wolf3d, Tribes, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tourney, and a bit of WW2OL for my sim-side. Am I plottng the death of people en masse? No, not really. Maybe I kill people daily on Counter-Strike. Maybe I enjoy killing them. Does this mean I want to go buy a tactical machine pistol in real life and go on a killing spree? No, it doesn't. I've not once had the urge to go on killing spree's thanks to violent video games. The killing spree thoughts come from just being around people in general, not from video games.