Came with your DVD drive, which I'm assuming you bought. Shouldn't you be bitching to the drive manufacturers instead for not supporting linux? Sure, you can probably just download that player from their website, but they pretty much rely on the fact that most window users won't bother. With windows it's to the point where if you don't offer a player, then many people won't buy the drive.
So why doesn't a drive manufacturer get someone to write a linux version of a player? The fact of the matter is that for the majority of windows users the software bundle is fairly important because they don't want to go through the trouble of tracking down software on the net. Linux users have nothing better to do so will spend days searching for and downloading something over the net. So, unlike windows where all of the manufactures jumped on the bandwagon and bundled, with Linux you'll have one company footing the whole cost with very little increase in sales.
I'm not saying it doesn't stink, but it's all economics. The fact of the matter is Linux users don't buy software in great enough numbers to make it worth it. If you think otherwise, go start a company that sells a licensed Linux DVD player.
I didn't do it for the money, it just seemed like something fun and I was curious if I could do it. I'm still confused as to why they put me in jail for it even though I left the money at the door.
No, the open source project would still be sitting with a sourcefourge page that says, 'I'll get back to thinking about doing this project as soon as my finals are over, oh, and after I play some more counterstrike.'
I'm sure he already has the 'whacks off' part mastered.
Re:Eh, what's this 90 minute nonsense?
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The UV probably isn't going through the shell of the craft. And everything that the article mentions are things that are in fact located in the livable space. The parts that recirculate the air most certainly are controlled. What do you think they use to control the cabin temp?
Eh, what's this 90 minute nonsense?
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So, we're supposed to believe that because the sun rises and sets every 90 minutes things smell differently? The station isn't exactly a sun porch, and the temperature is maintained pretty constant, so I just don't really buy what that has to do with anything. Am I to believe that fruit ripens faster and you need to shower more often because your hair greases up every 90 minutes?
If things smell it's because it's an closed system. Noise is probably a much bigger issue. In the quietness of space the soft whir of a fan in the ventelation system will sound like a 747.
Not really, the more north you are the lower you have to point your dish. Mine is at like 30 deg in Mass, so for the most part everything just runs off it, even snow and sleet. I've had my dish for going on 2 years and have never had ice forming on it be a problem. Granted, N.E. certainly isn't the worst for weather compared to other regions, but I think it's a pretty good test.
It's much more common for it to go out due to torential rains as opposed to winter weather, and even then it's only for a few minutes and maybe a half dozen times in the past 2 years.
In all honesty, I think that something like this is a bad idea because it relieves governments of the responsibility of making currency that is hard to counterfeit. Sooner or later, someone hardcore (probably a crime ring) with their own equipment will come along and duplicate poorly designed currency, making a whole bunch of fake currency that is undetectable.
I really don't see how you come to this conclusion. Did I miss the part where they are laying off half of the secret service because the govt is realying completely on this?
All this does is creates a really cheap way to keep people (like a bunch of kids just goofing around) from doing something and getting into a bunch of trouble. In the long run it saves money. What kid with access to a scanner hasn't thought of the old scan the money scam. Everyone does. Even if a very small percetage actually were to do it do you really want to spend the time and energy stopping it after the fact?
It's called 5 degrees out in New England. Even 25 years ago when I was in school we had indoor recess on the really cold winter days, not to mention rain, snow, etc.
Little girls play with legos more than boys do now. My daughter (9 yr) brought into school all of my old legos from my mothers house because she said they were running out of them to use in her classroom. Aparently it's all the girls in the class who play legos at recess while the boys sit there and play their video games.
While i didn't buy her any regular lego sets, she did get several sets of clikits. If they had some simple, fairly inexpensive lego kits that allowed for girls to make simple houses, malls, in all pastelly girl colors lego would take off again.
At this point, girls generally have much more imagination and ability to sit down and play and build things. The key is breaking away from the theme based movie/fantasy themes and focus on what girls like, dolls, play houses, etc.
Oh don't get me wrong. I think the mules are actually cool and would love one for around the yard. Way more convenient than hooking up the trailor to my tractor for moving shit around.
If you really want one, look here: http://www.mechanicalmulesofamerica.com/
If I had hte cash I'd buy one in a second except that my poor old man would go into flashback mode from the days of Vietnam whenever he came over.
Insightful how? Chances are that this extremely rare and incredibly powerful event will have absolutely no impact on us here in Earth. The thought of the Sun going bonkers and doing something terrible likely doesn't cause even the experts in the field to lose a winks sleep at night.
Compare that to the chances of some fringe terrorist group getting a hold of a nuke or causing some other catastrophy. Where is the money better spent again?
But then again, for the [b|m]illions of dollars we could get some really cool screen savers of the Sun.
It's only easier to get because it's easier to hide. It's hard to walk around the school halls with a six pack of beer. A joint or some pills on the other hand is no sweat. It's not about the law or punishments, it's about which you can get away with at all and which you can't.
If you ask me, the real problem is that plants aren't very efficient in making fuel. As usual, the tree huggers have to put there 'pro plant' spin on everything. Once we get rid of all the stupid green leafed things we can hopefully start using something a little more efficient in making gas for my SUV. The only thing keeping me from running over all the tree huggers is that their stupid plants make crappy fuel and I run out of gas.
A big reason why this is often done is to try to appease the surrounding towns who have to deal with the huge influx of new residents and the problems that they bring. UMass required freshmen to stay on campus unless you were labeled a commuter(at least 13 years ago they did). Easily gotten around, but most people simply didn't bother, so the rule pretty much worked as intended.
Really it's not such a bad thing for large schools. It lets the local towns sleep a little better thinking they won't have as many parties to break up, and it keeps of campus housing costs down a bit because demand is not as high.
I clicked on the article and all it really says is that the jury found that eBay willingly infringed on his patent. If we take this to actually be true then this settlement sounds about right. The Buy Now feature is something that eBay uses to attract people. By attracting people eBay makes money, tons of money. If they did see this first somewhere else then they should pay that person for his work.
The $30m is stated as punitive, a pretty good slap on the wrist. Maybe next time eBay will actually license a patent from the little guy and save some money in the long run rather than have a free lunch
I just looked over the license (albeit really quickly) and saw nothing about deleting files. Also, at least the way I read it, this seems to really be applied only to connecting to the iTunes store. Not to playing music you've already downloaded.
This basically seems to say, 'to connect to iTunes you need to be situated in the US." Which probably makes sense when you talk about legal jurisdictions.
But, like I said, I only scanned through things real quicklike.
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Came with your DVD drive, which I'm assuming you bought. Shouldn't you be bitching to the drive manufacturers instead for not supporting linux? Sure, you can probably just download that player from their website, but they pretty much rely on the fact that most window users won't bother. With windows it's to the point where if you don't offer a player, then many people won't buy the drive.
So why doesn't a drive manufacturer get someone to write a linux version of a player? The fact of the matter is that for the majority of windows users the software bundle is fairly important because they don't want to go through the trouble of tracking down software on the net. Linux users have nothing better to do so will spend days searching for and downloading something over the net. So, unlike windows where all of the manufactures jumped on the bandwagon and bundled, with Linux you'll have one company footing the whole cost with very little increase in sales.
I'm not saying it doesn't stink, but it's all economics. The fact of the matter is Linux users don't buy software in great enough numbers to make it worth it. If you think otherwise, go start a company that sells a licensed Linux DVD player.
Iraq, as a security contractor. Personally, I'll keep my 65k/year job and not have to worry about having my body dragged around the streets.
I didn't do it for the money, it just seemed like something fun and I was curious if I could do it. I'm still confused as to why they put me in jail for it even though I left the money at the door.
No, the open source project would still be sitting with a sourcefourge page that says, 'I'll get back to thinking about doing this project as soon as my finals are over, oh, and after I play some more counterstrike.'
I'm sure he already has the 'whacks off' part mastered.
The UV probably isn't going through the shell of the craft. And everything that the article mentions are things that are in fact located in the livable space. The parts that recirculate the air most certainly are controlled. What do you think they use to control the cabin temp?
So, we're supposed to believe that because the sun rises and sets every 90 minutes things smell differently? The station isn't exactly a sun porch, and the temperature is maintained pretty constant, so I just don't really buy what that has to do with anything. Am I to believe that fruit ripens faster and you need to shower more often because your hair greases up every 90 minutes? If things smell it's because it's an closed system. Noise is probably a much bigger issue. In the quietness of space the soft whir of a fan in the ventelation system will sound like a 747.
The scat search engine at poogle
Not really, the more north you are the lower you have to point your dish. Mine is at like 30 deg in Mass, so for the most part everything just runs off it, even snow and sleet. I've had my dish for going on 2 years and have never had ice forming on it be a problem. Granted, N.E. certainly isn't the worst for weather compared to other regions, but I think it's a pretty good test. It's much more common for it to go out due to torential rains as opposed to winter weather, and even then it's only for a few minutes and maybe a half dozen times in the past 2 years.
In all honesty, I think that something like this is a bad idea because it relieves governments of the responsibility of making currency that is hard to counterfeit. Sooner or later, someone hardcore (probably a crime ring) with their own equipment will come along and duplicate poorly designed currency, making a whole bunch of fake currency that is undetectable.
I really don't see how you come to this conclusion. Did I miss the part where they are laying off half of the secret service because the govt is realying completely on this?
All this does is creates a really cheap way to keep people (like a bunch of kids just goofing around) from doing something and getting into a bunch of trouble. In the long run it saves money. What kid with access to a scanner hasn't thought of the old scan the money scam. Everyone does. Even if a very small percetage actually were to do it do you really want to spend the time and energy stopping it after the fact?
It's called 5 degrees out in New England. Even 25 years ago when I was in school we had indoor recess on the really cold winter days, not to mention rain, snow, etc.
Little girls play with legos more than boys do now. My daughter (9 yr) brought into school all of my old legos from my mothers house because she said they were running out of them to use in her classroom. Aparently it's all the girls in the class who play legos at recess while the boys sit there and play their video games.
While i didn't buy her any regular lego sets, she did get several sets of clikits. If they had some simple, fairly inexpensive lego kits that allowed for girls to make simple houses, malls, in all pastelly girl colors lego would take off again.
At this point, girls generally have much more imagination and ability to sit down and play and build things. The key is breaking away from the theme based movie/fantasy themes and focus on what girls like, dolls, play houses, etc.
Oh don't get me wrong. I think the mules are actually cool and would love one for around the yard. Way more convenient than hooking up the trailor to my tractor for moving shit around.
If you really want one, look here: http://www.mechanicalmulesofamerica.com/
If I had hte cash I'd buy one in a second except that my poor old man would go into flashback mode from the days of Vietnam whenever he came over.
You mean like this Mule
Or perhaps this Mule
I think I like the latter better.
We aren't talking about your Hustler collection.
You mean by running, or hiking for 20 whole minutes? Unthinkable.
Insightful how? Chances are that this extremely rare and incredibly powerful event will have absolutely no impact on us here in Earth. The thought of the Sun going bonkers and doing something terrible likely doesn't cause even the experts in the field to lose a winks sleep at night. Compare that to the chances of some fringe terrorist group getting a hold of a nuke or causing some other catastrophy. Where is the money better spent again? But then again, for the [b|m]illions of dollars we could get some really cool screen savers of the Sun.
It's only easier to get because it's easier to hide. It's hard to walk around the school halls with a six pack of beer. A joint or some pills on the other hand is no sweat. It's not about the law or punishments, it's about which you can get away with at all and which you can't.
If you ask me, the real problem is that plants aren't very efficient in making fuel. As usual, the tree huggers have to put there 'pro plant' spin on everything. Once we get rid of all the stupid green leafed things we can hopefully start using something a little more efficient in making gas for my SUV. The only thing keeping me from running over all the tree huggers is that their stupid plants make crappy fuel and I run out of gas.
A big reason why this is often done is to try to appease the surrounding towns who have to deal with the huge influx of new residents and the problems that they bring. UMass required freshmen to stay on campus unless you were labeled a commuter(at least 13 years ago they did). Easily gotten around, but most people simply didn't bother, so the rule pretty much worked as intended.
Really it's not such a bad thing for large schools. It lets the local towns sleep a little better thinking they won't have as many parties to break up, and it keeps of campus housing costs down a bit because demand is not as high.
Oh yah, that does wonders for my beer and Ben and Jerrys
Stable relationship does not mean nightly threesomes with Ben & Jerry.
I clicked on the article and all it really says is that the jury found that eBay willingly infringed on his patent. If we take this to actually be true then this settlement sounds about right. The Buy Now feature is something that eBay uses to attract people. By attracting people eBay makes money, tons of money. If they did see this first somewhere else then they should pay that person for his work.
The $30m is stated as punitive, a pretty good slap on the wrist. Maybe next time eBay will actually license a patent from the little guy and save some money in the long run rather than have a free lunch
$18000 added to a 30 year mortgage at 6% (which is a little bit high for right now, but way low on average) comes to ~108/mo.
Where is the savings? Not too many people have 18 grand to throw around hoping to make it back in 18 years.
I just looked over the license (albeit really quickly) and saw nothing about deleting files. Also, at least the way I read it, this seems to really be applied only to connecting to the iTunes store. Not to playing music you've already downloaded.
This basically seems to say, 'to connect to iTunes you need to be situated in the US." Which probably makes sense when you talk about legal jurisdictions.
But, like I said, I only scanned through things real quicklike.