Instead of transferring it into your own account transfer it into the account of someone you hate. Getting someone's account number is actually not all that difficult. It's on every check they write for instance. Mmmm. The sweet taste of revenge.
How can music that hasn't ever been sold to anyone have any kind of value? At least with a CD that has sold millions of copies a reasonable argument can be made that the songs on the CD are worth some particular amount of money. But just the expectation that it will sell? WTF.
The history of In Re: Volkswagen is as follows: In their 2006 complaint in Singleton, et al. v. Volkswagen, et al., the plaintiffs allege that their daughter, 7-year-old Mariana Singleton, was sitting in the backseat of a 1999 Volkswagen Golf when a defective front passenger seat collapsed on her during a wreck with another vehicle, crushing her skull. Ewww. Pics? Why is it that it seems so sensible to wear a helmet on a motorcycle, but in a car it is considered insane? A motorcycle helmet in this case might have saved the life of this cute little girl.
Some lawyers worry that the 5th Circuit could issue a ruling in In Re: Volkswagen that will hurt their business in the Eastern District -- the large numbers of patent and product liability suits has proven to be a boon to many lawyers and firms operating there.
"It could hurt lawyers all over the state," especially in Dallas, which has a large contingent of firms that practice in the Eastern District, says Michael C. Smith, a partner in the Marshall office of Siebman Reynolds Burg Phillips & Smith who represents the plaintiffs. Lawyers making less money? Say it aint so! Now that would be the real tragedy here.
Somehow I doubt the founding fathers had "Dude, they should totally be able to pirate music, movies, and video games" when they were writing the bill of rights. You seem to be missing the point of the 9th amendment. The whole point was that just because "the right to make and trade copies of digital information" was not included in that ancient document written with quills does not mean that we do not have that right. The point of the constitution was to limit the "rights" of the government, not those of the people. Remember these were the guys who were willing to go to war and die over a minor tax. I'm not sure how sympathetic they would be to protecting the aging business models of mega-corporations with more and more draconian laws and even larger and larger police states to enforce them. I think they would consider rampant piracy to be by far the lesser of the two evils. And as far as file sharing goes, clearly the people of the world have spoken in its favor.
Where in the constitution is the right to file share? Amendment 9:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
If I write a program I have just as much right to sell it for $1000 dollars a copy and not allow you to make copies of it as I do two write a program and release it under the GPL. The only way to prevent people from copying your data is not to release it at all. DRM has proven itself time and time again to be utterly ineffective. And only in a totalitarian dictatorship, something like out of 1984, could you prevent anyone from copying it through legal means. Even if the death penalty were imposed for the act, I would still make and distribute copies of your software. Do you see the problem here? This is more than just people who want stuff for free. To some people it is a matter of principle, and not just any principle, but one that is worth fighting and dying for.
He who fights with [the MAFIAA] might take care lest he thereby become [employed by the MAFIAA]. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, [the MAFIAA] gazes also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil", revised edition.
Also I clearly did not RTFA. Yes. That's pretty clear. This is definitely one of those articles where you really need to. If you had read it you would have seen that the guy was selling sealed boxes. He had never even opened the box, let alone installed the software and clicked through any sort of agreement. Also, you seem to be forgetting that vendors will not take back software after the box has been opened. So by the time you reach a point where you can disagree with the terms of the contract, it is too late to return it. And forget about suing the store. They have a published return policy (another contract). Except in their case they say right up front that only unopened software can be returned. If you don't like those terms you don't have to buy the software from them.
Ah, but keep in mind, the software publisher is claiming not that you are buying a piece of software with which you can do whatever you want, but a license to use a piece of software. This decision says that that license is transferable. Have you actually read the article? I don't think that is what this decision is saying. It looks like the judge is sidestepping the whole EULA issue interely. So the "license" is not relevant. The boxes were never even opened. So it was not even possible to know what this "license" consisted of. This Ebay vendor bought some boxes of stuff, (which seems to have some market value) inside of it. But when he tried to sell these boxes Autodesk used (and abused) the DMCA to take down the auctions as copyright violations. I guess the ruling could be saying something like "The EULA doesn't apply if you haven't even opened the box". Whether or not it applies when you have opened the box is a can of worms that the judge didn't want to open.
Where do you buy a machine that comes with a regular windows disk? Here. Doesn't come with a windows disk though. You are expected to get that from here.
From those calculations, they will raise the price by an amount necessary to replace the lost revenue. Or lower the price. If they could just raise prices to increase revenue don't you think they would have done so already? Or were you under the impression that Autodesk sells software for some purpose other than making money? The extent to which they can raise prices to increase revenue depends on something called elasticity and that is not under their control.
Can someone explain the reason of why it shouldn't be considered a form of stealing? The difference between copyright infringement and stealing is like the difference between taking a photo of someone without their permission and kidnapping them. Or maybe the difference between kidnapping someone and cloning them from a stray hair. In one case the victim is quite aware of the "crime". In the other case it is difficult to even find a "victim" at all.
It may be a gratuitous slam on the United States but its a truthful one. The behaviour of the United Status regard Guantanamo has been a blight on its reputation, one that has soured its image across the world. So the fact that it is truthful is a justification to bring it up in every discussion? It may be truthful, but it is completely, utterly, irrelevant to the discussion at hand. I highly doubt that Guantanamo has "soured" our image in any place which was not already anti-American. America has been a hated country for decades in most regions of the world. The blame that America is taking for virtually every problem in the world is nothing new. Let me know when a US citizen is placed in jail or killed for anything like a blog. In case you haven't noticed Bush is bashed every day on slashdot and even ACs have their IP logged so if Bush had the power and desire to take them down he certainly could. So the comparison is disingenuous.
The only difference here is that there is another choice - radical change in their neo- and plain vanilla colonialist policy by removing their armed forced from the region and stop supporting "Israel". What this has to do with the topic at hand I am not sure, but why does Syria care who some distant country (the US) wants to be allies with? Are Syria and Israel at war? Is Syria pissed because if Israel were not a US ally they would be easier to annex into a part of Syria? Israel is the only western style democracy in the middle east. The US would like to see more of those. Why should we not be supporting it? Can someone please explain to me where all this hatred for Israel is coming from. It's just a completely insignificant little stretch of desert. Yawn. It's not even like they have any oil. So what's the big deal? Also how would withdrawing support for Israel help Syria exactly?
Ah. Locombia. My favorite Latin American country. Where the girls are pretty and the people are some of the nicest and friendliest on Earth. Living in the USA is good for making and spending money (the internet!!), but it's not so good for just living your life. If you just want to be happy and are not very materialistic I think Colombia is a much better place to live. Of course it sucks to only get paid $10/day. But I think many Colombians would be unhappy here. There are any number of third world countries that I would rather live in than the US or Canada.
An obvious first step is to disable things like automatic image loading in the browser options. Go to some sites that load very slow and troubleshoot them. Try to see what is being loaded that is bogging down the browser. Firefox may have some extensions that help this, and I think Opera is pretty good at listing what is loading and how long it takes. Use an ad blocker. Dialup is often killed by all those fancy ads. Disable flash, javascript, DHTML stuff (where possible) and anything else too fancy. A friend of mine had dialup where he was living a few years ago, and I found that just disabling image loading and ad blocking made a huge difference. Without all the images and ads page loading was pretty snappy. Another option is just to use a text only browser like Lynx. Although it seems it hasn't been updated since 2004. Also, with dialup an offline browser is mandatory. Update all regularly visited sites at night or when the user is doing something other than web browsing.
I think most of us when we think about the flying cars "we were promised" think about something along the lines of the ones in Blade Runner. Since we don't yet have antigrav tech and don't really think it is possible anyway, I think the only way we could come up with a machine even remotely similar to the one in Blade Runner is by using helicopter/hovercraft tech instead. Fixed wing is impractical because it requires an actual runway and an extended wingspan to take off. A car/hovercroft/copter design with a ducted fan at the bottom or compact rotor blades at the top seems like the only way. That way it would be possible to take off in heavy traffic and land at your destination. Although this is probably impossible due to some very reasonable sound restrictions on public roads. 10 minute warning strobes and beeps could be required before liftoff so that the occupants of nearby cars could have time to put on their hearing protection etc, but that would seriously increase the danger for regular drivers and then there is the whole issue of landing. The landing issues could be mitigated by only designating certain allowed landing areas, maybe in the equivalent of highway rest areas, but the problem still remains. Of course such areas could also be required for takeoff which would reduce some of the dangers of that as well.
Another idea would be to just skip the whole flying car idea and build some additional infrastructure for ultralight helicopters like this one or powered paragliding or any similar small aircraft that can launch/takeoff from your driveway or from one of the newly built rest stop areas designed for such launches and landings.
The gas spilled over the northern lip of the lake into a valley running roughly east-west from Cha to Subum, and then rushed down two valleys branching off it to the north, displacing all the air and suffocating some 1,700 people within 20 km of the lake, mostly rural villagers, as well as 3,500 livestock.
It is believed that up to a cubic kilometre of gas was released. Because pure CO2 is denser than air, the gas flowed off the mountainous flank in which Lake Nyos rests and down two adjoining valleys in a layer tens of metres deep, displacing the air and suffocating all the people and animals before it could dissipate. The normally blue waters of the lake turned a deep red after the outgassing, due to iron-rich water from the deep rising to the surface and being oxidised by the air. The level of the lake dropped by about a metre, representing the volume of gas released. The outgassing probably also caused an overflow of the waters of the lake. Trees near the lake were knocked down. Am I evil for immediately thinking of some kind of weapon of mass destruction? Just drop a large quantity of CO2 over the heads of the enemy troops. Or over a city, especially one in a natural valley. Also, couldn't they bottle the stuff and sell it to suiciders. All they would have to do is buy a bottle and open the valve in a small room like a bathroom and poof! Only problem is I think it makes you hyperventilate while you suffocate. Nitrogen might be better.
Both.NET and Java are descended from the C branch of languages, but they really are moving well beyond that initial inheritence into areas which Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs never could have anticipated or probably even imagined (there was no practical context in which to have a serious discussion about object oriented programming back in the early 1970s because many of the concepts that are in.NET and Java today hadn't been invented yet or were only tossed around as theories by academic computer scientists). Yes I'm sure those morons at Bell Labs could never have imagined that something like C could possibly have been replaced by something like.NET. Not in their most terrifying nightmares could they have imagined that.
A bit off topic but there's something I don't understand about modern programmers. Do you see any need at all to change the way you write code due to the fact that, at least for the moment, single threaded performance of CPUs has come to a screeching halt? Or are you under the impression that your.NET code is as optimized as assembly? I do not understand why there is not some kind of movement toward lower level languages. Does.NET at least have an easy way to interface with assembly for inner loop, time critical sections of code? I would imagine that many modern coders would reject assembly because it not only requires use of higher brain functions in the cerebral cortex but also doesn't have garbage collection.
It's then incumbent upon us to vote to ensure our sentiments What the hell are you on about? Since when do presidential candidates talk about what kind of judges they want to see appointed to SCOTUS? You "the majority rule of democracy will solve every problem" people make me laugh. Maybe if we had a national referendum with veto power over SCOTUS nominations or better yet referendum veto power over individual SCOTUS decisions you would have a point. Even if the US were a pure democracy (and we sure as hell are not) and could vote directly on everything it would still mean that as many as 49.9% of the population might think the decisions were ridiculous. Personally I think the least you majority rule folks could do when the discussion turns to SCOTUS is STFU because they are the least democratic aspect of our government. They are intentionally undemocratic.
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Instead of transferring it into your own account transfer it into the account of someone you hate. Getting someone's account number is actually not all that difficult. It's on every check they write for instance. Mmmm. The sweet taste of revenge.
How can music that hasn't ever been sold to anyone have any kind of value? At least with a CD that has sold millions of copies a reasonable argument can be made that the songs on the CD are worth some particular amount of money. But just the expectation that it will sell? WTF.
"It could hurt lawyers all over the state," especially in Dallas, which has a large contingent of firms that practice in the Eastern District, says Michael C. Smith, a partner in the Marshall office of Siebman Reynolds Burg Phillips & Smith who represents the plaintiffs. Lawyers making less money? Say it aint so! Now that would be the real tragedy here.
Hugo Chavez is that you?
Ah. Locombia. My favorite Latin American country. Where the girls are pretty and the people are some of the nicest and friendliest on Earth. Living in the USA is good for making and spending money (the internet!!), but it's not so good for just living your life. If you just want to be happy and are not very materialistic I think Colombia is a much better place to live. Of course it sucks to only get paid $10/day. But I think many Colombians would be unhappy here. There are any number of third world countries that I would rather live in than the US or Canada.
An obvious first step is to disable things like automatic image loading in the browser options. Go to some sites that load very slow and troubleshoot them. Try to see what is being loaded that is bogging down the browser. Firefox may have some extensions that help this, and I think Opera is pretty good at listing what is loading and how long it takes. Use an ad blocker. Dialup is often killed by all those fancy ads. Disable flash, javascript, DHTML stuff (where possible) and anything else too fancy. A friend of mine had dialup where he was living a few years ago, and I found that just disabling image loading and ad blocking made a huge difference. Without all the images and ads page loading was pretty snappy. Another option is just to use a text only browser like Lynx. Although it seems it hasn't been updated since 2004. Also, with dialup an offline browser is mandatory. Update all regularly visited sites at night or when the user is doing something other than web browsing.
The X-Hawk seems to be more in line with our flying car dreams.
I think most of us when we think about the flying cars "we were promised" think about something along the lines of the ones in Blade Runner. Since we don't yet have antigrav tech and don't really think it is possible anyway, I think the only way we could come up with a machine even remotely similar to the one in Blade Runner is by using helicopter/hovercraft tech instead. Fixed wing is impractical because it requires an actual runway and an extended wingspan to take off. A car/hovercroft/copter design with a ducted fan at the bottom or compact rotor blades at the top seems like the only way. That way it would be possible to take off in heavy traffic and land at your destination. Although this is probably impossible due to some very reasonable sound restrictions on public roads. 10 minute warning strobes and beeps could be required before liftoff so that the occupants of nearby cars could have time to put on their hearing protection etc, but that would seriously increase the danger for regular drivers and then there is the whole issue of landing. The landing issues could be mitigated by only designating certain allowed landing areas, maybe in the equivalent of highway rest areas, but the problem still remains. Of course such areas could also be required for takeoff which would reduce some of the dangers of that as well.
Another idea would be to just skip the whole flying car idea and build some additional infrastructure for ultralight helicopters like this one or powered paragliding or any similar small aircraft that can launch/takeoff from your driveway or from one of the newly built rest stop areas designed for such launches and landings.
It is believed that up to a cubic kilometre of gas was released. Because pure CO2 is denser than air, the gas flowed off the mountainous flank in which Lake Nyos rests and down two adjoining valleys in a layer tens of metres deep, displacing the air and suffocating all the people and animals before it could dissipate. The normally blue waters of the lake turned a deep red after the outgassing, due to iron-rich water from the deep rising to the surface and being oxidised by the air. The level of the lake dropped by about a metre, representing the volume of gas released. The outgassing probably also caused an overflow of the waters of the lake. Trees near the lake were knocked down. Am I evil for immediately thinking of some kind of weapon of mass destruction? Just drop a large quantity of CO2 over the heads of the enemy troops. Or over a city, especially one in a natural valley. Also, couldn't they bottle the stuff and sell it to suiciders. All they would have to do is buy a bottle and open the valve in a small room like a bathroom and poof! Only problem is I think it makes you hyperventilate while you suffocate. Nitrogen might be better.
Well Ford could have the transportation part covered.
A bit off topic but there's something I don't understand about modern programmers. Do you see any need at all to change the way you write code due to the fact that, at least for the moment, single threaded performance of CPUs has come to a screeching halt? Or are you under the impression that your