I hit post too fast, i also wanted to include the RIAA ( and to a lesser extent, the BSA and its friends ) marketing has also scared common people away from truly free stuff. be it music or software.
"if its free, its gotta be stealng" " if its free software, its no good and full of viruses" " how do they get paid, it must not be legal" etc.. Its really hard to explain to people at times who are programmed by the spin. The TV is a powerful device to sway the public.
I wouldnt say NO ONE.. but i do agree the % is skewed towards the techies.
I know several non techies that are terrified to download something ( if they even knew how they wouldnt ), completely due to RIAA marketing. Which will get one hell of a boost from this judgement.
Evolution will drop useless parts as well, just not as quickly since it doesnt effect survival at the time. ( where it may have at some point in the past ). Remember too, mating rituals are part of survival. Often in the animal kindgom if you arent as pretty as the competition you cease to contribute to the gene pool. Lobes and other apparent useless-but-neutral features may have been a 'pretty' factor 10 thousand years ago for us.
And since evolution never stops, you cant really predict when something like earlobs will disappear. It just hasn't happened YET.
When the visibility is this high, and the corporation has bribed, eerrr lobbied, this hard its not surprising to see the government ( i wont say 'bush', this sort of nonsence is a government issue in general, not an administration issue ) comment on it.
Sort of like the 'war on drugs', or 'war on big tobacco', ( and soon, 'big snack food' ) you can expect public comments.
I say its time for us citizens to have a 'war on RIAA', and take no prisoners. Start with voting out anyone that in the least supports this. Show them we are displeased with their being purchased and no longer looking out for their constituents.
I dont see how Apple can lose this. When you bought the stupid phone, and got your service, you agreed to the limitations set forth by Apple. If you didnt like the license, you shouldnt have agreed to it.
Now, if they were to change the license along the way you can at least have a reason to complain, but come on, you idiots agreed to this upfront.
1 - what hardware does it run on, generic PC's? Generic Macs? If its still on custom hardware, its DOA at this stage of the game. 2 - software: is it all custom, or can i run Word, Acrobat, etc? If it cant run commodity software its also DOA as far as the big picture is concerned. ( X11 will help.. )
While it may be great technology, there are 100s of 'good' OS's out there that are niche markets. That doesnt make them 'better'. Even when they had a chance like Be. You just hve to have a level of compatiblity of both hardware AND software of the 2 big players to really make it and be 'better'.
So this means my passengers in the back can be doing other more entertaining acts instead of having to stay upright to be seen by the cameras as we whiz down the road.
Cool, I'm moving to be a passenger instead of a driver.
No more ' but sir, she really was in the car, you just couldn't see her.. ' explanations either.
Allah has no room for science, as he ( and his 'teachings' ) would be proven a farce and the entire muslim religion would disappear in a puff of logic..
I agree its different, but so is any other 3D application. Try comparing Truespace to 3DSmax for example.
Once you take the time needed, you can be quite productive. And yes, it takes TIME to do it, this is not something you can whip out in a weekend. This isnt MSpaint we are talking about.
Id prefer to drag them like most business in the world do ( thou, some do contract out the logistics i realize ) instead of trusting some on line backup farce.
Professionals take their tools with them. High end jobs are done by professionals. A 'production executive' is liable to have been a professional job. Aside from that, often people have these same tools in their garage, and thieves do use what is available to them. ( i didnt say angle grinder, i said reciprocating saw. Thats also good for cutting off door knobs and locks and chains too so its a multipurpose tool )
Back OT: Off-site storage of data is practical for EVERYONE. You can get this new fangled thing called a 'safety deposit box' for a few bucks a year at your local bank. Cant afford the few bucks for the deposit box? take it to a friends, or the offfice. Chances of both places buring down at the same exact moment is pretty remote. We are only talking a single external HD here, so its not going to require an entire climate controlled warehouse or something.
There is really no excuse for having off-site data storage.
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Arent they *required* to disclose this information? Couldn't the entire case be tossed out and them held in contempt?
So they will just get those cheap Chinese "clone phones" instead?
Perhaps they are starting to again realize a certain level of piracy is good for them, as it increases market penetration and 'collateral' sales.
While its nice they are going to drop the WGA requirment, *forced* updates are just wrong.
Just means the orginal patent they were trying to circumvent wasnt drawn up properly.
I hit post too fast, i also wanted to include the RIAA ( and to a lesser extent, the BSA and its friends ) marketing has also scared common people away from truly free stuff. be it music or software.
"if its free, its gotta be stealng" " if its free software, its no good and full of viruses" " how do they get paid, it must not be legal" etc.. Its really hard to explain to people at times who are programmed by the spin. The TV is a powerful device to sway the public.
I wouldnt say NO ONE .. but i do agree the % is skewed towards the techies.
I know several non techies that are terrified to download something ( if they even knew how they wouldnt ), completely due to RIAA marketing. Which will get one hell of a boost from this judgement.
Evolution will drop useless parts as well, just not as quickly since it doesnt effect survival at the time. ( where it may have at some point in the past ). Remember too, mating rituals are part of survival. Often in the animal kindgom if you arent as pretty as the competition you cease to contribute to the gene pool. Lobes and other apparent useless-but-neutral features may have been a 'pretty' factor 10 thousand years ago for us.
And since evolution never stops, you cant really predict when something like earlobs will disappear. It just hasn't happened YET.
When the visibility is this high, and the corporation has bribed, eerrr lobbied, this hard its not surprising to see the government ( i wont say 'bush', this sort of nonsence is a government issue in general, not an administration issue ) comment on it.
Sort of like the 'war on drugs', or 'war on big tobacco', ( and soon, 'big snack food' ) you can expect public comments.
I say its time for us citizens to have a 'war on RIAA', and take no prisoners. Start with voting out anyone that in the least supports this. Show them we are displeased with their being purchased and no longer looking out for their constituents.
I dont see how Apple can lose this. When you bought the stupid phone, and got your service, you agreed to the limitations set forth by Apple. If you didnt like the license, you shouldnt have agreed to it.
Now, if they were to change the license along the way you can at least have a reason to complain, but come on, you idiots agreed to this upfront.
and no i didnt read the story.. cant get to it.
1 - what hardware does it run on, generic PC's? Generic Macs? If its still on custom hardware, its DOA at this stage of the game.
2 - software: is it all custom, or can i run Word, Acrobat, etc? If it cant run commodity software its also DOA as far as the big picture is concerned. ( X11 will help.. )
While it may be great technology, there are 100s of 'good' OS's out there that are niche markets. That doesnt make them 'better'. Even when they had a chance like Be. You just hve to have a level of compatiblity of both hardware AND software of the 2 big players to really make it and be 'better'.
Or the cops... or soldiers.. or anything but the 'common citizen'.
See, now we must ban any open source software due to national security.
So this means my passengers in the back can be doing other more entertaining acts instead of having to stay upright to be seen by the cameras as we whiz down the road.
Cool, I'm moving to be a passenger instead of a driver.
No more ' but sir, she really was in the car, you just couldn't see her.. ' explanations either.
Only on paper for tax revenue.. In spirit, we lost them long ago.
Are you tainted for life after seeing the code?
Never need retuning ( well, not *never* but if you have one, youll understand )
No, they want 1 sale per LISTEN.. this is just a step in that direction.
Ripping for personal use is just as much stealing as skipping commercials on tv is stealing.
Its california, what else would you expect?
This must have been a joke.
Allah has no room for science, as he ( and his 'teachings' ) would be proven a farce and the entire muslim religion would disappear in a puff of logic..
So to prevent that they prohibit you from talking bad about the company? Huh?
Take 720k and punch them to fool the PC into thinking they were 1.44.
Not overly reliable to run something over spec, i think ill pass on it for anything i care about.
I agree its different, but so is any other 3D application. Try comparing Truespace to 3DSmax for example.
Once you take the time needed, you can be quite productive. And yes, it takes TIME to do it, this is not something you can whip out in a weekend. This isnt MSpaint we are talking about.
Id prefer to drag them like most business in the world do ( thou, some do contract out the logistics i realize ) instead of trusting some on line backup farce.
Professionals take their tools with them. High end jobs are done by professionals. A 'production executive' is liable to have been a professional job. Aside from that, often people have these same tools in their garage, and thieves do use what is available to them. ( i didnt say angle grinder, i said reciprocating saw. Thats also good for cutting off door knobs and locks and chains too so its a multipurpose tool )
Back OT: Off-site storage of data is practical for EVERYONE. You can get this new fangled thing called a 'safety deposit box' for a few bucks a year at your local bank. Cant afford the few bucks for the deposit box? take it to a friends, or the offfice. Chances of both places buring down at the same exact moment is pretty remote. We are only talking a single external HD here, so its not going to require an entire climate controlled warehouse or something.
There is really no excuse for having off-site data storage.