The guy built up the MySpace page himself and Obama can do the same - he doesn't have to hijack and control that which doesn't belong to him. The guy was not an official volunteer of the campaign and is under no obligation to hand it over.
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I don't blame the Obama campaign, either -- centralized control is necessary for presidential campaigns today.
I do. You don't take what isn't yours. It's a pretty old principle last time I checked. If it was really important, they would have built up their own MySpace page instead of hijacking someone elses.
How you treat the people underneath you in your daily interactions says a lot about you. How you run your campaign is the same thing. I'll be looking at what Mike Gravel has to say now, thanks.
The only reason I DIY is that I often find the tradeoff between quality and price on any of the prebuilt ones.
If I buy a cheap machine, I find the components to be cheap (duh) and by the time I price out a quality machine I could do it myself because they start charging an arm and a leg (and from the prebuilt I'm not always assured I get quality components as they often list features, not models - like motherboards, etcetera).
I wish I could find someone that is reasonable - I don't don't mind paying a small premium...
My original post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek as half my family lives in Canada -- I'm just wondering about the implications of such a scenario. Would they fight back? It's not a question of courage, it would just be a futile fight IMO.
The reason Canada would not want to be take over, amoung all other things, is that, going by present numbers, that oil would have to support 330 million people instead of just 30 million.... but with that idea about Quebec, it even wants to seperate from Canada itself from time to time, with some referendums for secession being extremely close.... so, I don't think statehood would be in order for them.
Microsoft has sold only 244 legitimate copies of Vista in China a while back. I think the figure is a bit higher in Europe.
The European market is worth pursuing and frankly I'm glad the EU is forcing MS to open its protocols so others can compete. Otherwise MS will have a stranglehold on the desktop forever without really deserving it other than the fact there are no other viable choices.
So the electric company should just charge you whatever they feel like whenever they feel like it? Because, hey, if you don't like it you can always move.
I'll answer my own question, due to the similarities in technology features, boasts of print speeds, and memjets unwillingness to make a product but rather license it - it seemed plausible that HP licensed it but that is probably not the case.
In the article on the/. article I linked to above about memjet, it says: "HP's competing printer costs $16,000
While Edgeline could be the closest competitor to Memjet in terms of speed, it appears to be far more expensive (than memjet)."
Interesting competition coming up, if memjet is indeed the real thing and not a hoax.
Of course it is an attempt to grab and retain marketshare by weaning people on cheap MS now in order to lock them into that in the future and make real money. They aren't doing this to feel good at night.
When people say conspiracy, this is what they mean.
Yes, they have XP now, but if MS rested on their laurels, they would have less (propietary formats, APIs, etc) to lock in users in the future since Linux could catch up if they remained a stationary target.
How about disallowing corporations in the political process in the first place?
Make it so that Microsoft and Lobbyists can't donate a thing. If the shareholders of that company think an issue is important to influence, let them take it out of their own pocket. I'm sure Bill Gates can afford to give his money and I'm sure that stockholders not of his political persuasion will be happy in turn that it isn't their collective money being spent.
We should remember that giving to campaigns, while tax-deductible, should not be treated like charity organizations. Noncitizen influences should be minimized at all costs.
However, I don' think this will solve all problems. Money, like Water, tends to flow and, if diverted from the area by one obstacle, tends to find another route.
The customer is at fault. He is doing business with a dishonest party. He is also too lazy to seek a remedy FROM the dishonest party
But all the customer knows is that he bought that DVD at retailer X. IF I buy a new Ford from a Ford dealership, and it turns out to be a lemon - I don't go with the car to Ford in detroit demanding my money back. My state's lemon law allows me to bring it back to the dealer after certain conditions are met.
I don't know what you percieve as Justice, but retailers are not helpless, and it is not up to the customer to spend more money on some stupid postage to get $20 bucks back, if he gets it back at all, from Sony, who he had no more direct business relationship with in the first place. Retailers get their premium from the fact that they act as MIDDLE MEN. That flow goes both ways.
And yes, the disc is still defective. A DVD movie that doesn't play in a significant amount of DVD players may well be what the "manufacturer intended" but I'm sure he the manufacturer could intend to package a turd in a box, call it beef jerky, and it would be as he intended it, doesn't make the product a piece of shit.
and there's nothing wrong with it, so they won't be reimbursed for it.
Ah, but there is. And I'm sure the Wal-marts of the world have enough clout to force the manufacture to take back his own dog food. And most of the other chain stores as well.
After all, they can just decide not to carry certain movies at all, or at least Sony's.
It shouldn't be called a "new type of DVD" nor sold as such.
Maybe I'm wrong, but like some "CDs" in the past that incorporated some copy protection and couldn't carry the CD logo/seal any longer on the cover, wouldn't the same thing apply here? Can Sony legimitately still call this thing a DVD anymore without being sued for fraud?
If I wanted to mess around with getting Windows apps working, I would be installing them on Linux with WINE or running them on Windows in virtualization (Virtualbox).
Oh wait, I do that already:) Should I have some schadenfreude that Window users get to join the fun or be more sympathetic? In any case, I suppose this won't prompt any developers of normal apps to develop them in a way to become platform independent (Firefox seem to do just fine as a large project...)
If you are replying to my request for a usb device that intercepts qwerty signals and traslates them into dvorak signals, I have all my computers set on dvorak layout.
However, there are times I use a computer at other places, at work or at school, where the system is so locked down that I cannot change the layout in software - yet I have access to the hardware.
I would find such a device easier to use than to lug around a dvorak keyboard just for that purpose.
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The guy built up the MySpace page himself and Obama can do the same - he doesn't have to hijack and control that which doesn't belong to him. The guy was not an official volunteer of the campaign and is under no obligation to hand it over.
I do. You don't take what isn't yours. It's a pretty old principle last time I checked. If it was really important, they would have built up their own MySpace page instead of hijacking someone elses.
How you treat the people underneath you in your daily interactions says a lot about you. How you run your campaign is the same thing. I'll be looking at what Mike Gravel has to say now, thanks.
The only reason I DIY is that I often find the tradeoff between quality and price on any of the prebuilt ones.
If I buy a cheap machine, I find the components to be cheap (duh) and by the time I price out a quality machine I could do it myself because they start charging an arm and a leg (and from the prebuilt I'm not always assured I get quality components as they often list features, not models - like motherboards, etcetera).
I wish I could find someone that is reasonable - I don't don't mind paying a small premium...
Like in the bend-it-over kind of way?
Hitler also hated free speech. Except for the "correct" thoughts of his side.
Europe, grow up.
My original post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek as half my family lives in Canada -- I'm just wondering about the implications of such a scenario. Would they fight back? It's not a question of courage, it would just be a futile fight IMO.
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The reason Canada would not want to be take over, amoung all other things, is that, going by present numbers, that oil would have to support 330 million people instead of just 30 million.... but with that idea about Quebec, it even wants to seperate from Canada itself from time to time, with some referendums for secession being extremely close.... so, I don't think statehood would be in order for them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_m
Microsoft has sold only 244 legitimate copies of Vista in China a while back. I think the figure is a bit higher in Europe.
The European market is worth pursuing and frankly I'm glad the EU is forcing MS to open its protocols so others can compete. Otherwise MS will have a stranglehold on the desktop forever without really deserving it other than the fact there are no other viable choices.
Interesting scenario - I think we'll do just that - I doubt they'll even put up a defense.
So the electric company should just charge you whatever they feel like whenever they feel like it? Because, hey, if you don't like it you can always move.
Who reads this bullshit? It's god damned insulting to anybody with an IQ over 30.
It should be:
Shit happens.
Who removed my brain?
But I have to ask, while AMD were on top with the Athlon for several years - were they just sitting on their laurels?
I'll answer my own question, due to the similarities in technology features, boasts of print speeds, and memjets unwillingness to make a product but rather license it - it seemed plausible that HP licensed it but that is probably not the case.
/. article I linked to above about memjet, it says:
In the article on the
"HP's competing printer costs $16,000
While Edgeline could be the closest competitor to Memjet in terms of speed, it appears to be far more expensive (than memjet)."
Interesting competition coming up, if memjet is indeed the real thing and not a hoax.
of this company here:/ 22/1241222
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03
Basically the ultrawide print head and instataneous drying times, etcetera. Any confirmation?
Of course it is an attempt to grab and retain marketshare by weaning people on cheap MS now in order to lock them into that in the future and make real money. They aren't doing this to feel good at night.
When people say conspiracy, this is what they mean.
And yield the market to Linux?
Yes, they have XP now, but if MS rested on their laurels, they would have less (propietary formats, APIs, etc) to lock in users in the future since Linux could catch up if they remained a stationary target.
No, I'd like to think that people who sincerely and significantly contribute to OSS and the community in general meet with success.
Whether that is happening is another story.
Bankrolling them IS making things happen.
How about disallowing corporations in the political process in the first place?
Make it so that Microsoft and Lobbyists can't donate a thing. If the shareholders of that company think an issue is important to influence, let them take it out of their own pocket. I'm sure Bill Gates can afford to give his money and I'm sure that stockholders not of his political persuasion will be happy in turn that it isn't their collective money being spent.
We should remember that giving to campaigns, while tax-deductible, should not be treated like charity organizations. Noncitizen influences should be minimized at all costs.
However, I don' think this will solve all problems. Money, like Water, tends to flow and, if diverted from the area by one obstacle, tends to find another route.
Yes, but did Google have to buy doubleclick for this functionality? Didn't google maps help people find themselves before?
I don't know what you percieve as Justice, but retailers are not helpless, and it is not up to the customer to spend more money on some stupid postage to get $20 bucks back, if he gets it back at all, from Sony, who he had no more direct business relationship with in the first place. Retailers get their premium from the fact that they act as MIDDLE MEN. That flow goes both ways.
And yes, the disc is still defective. A DVD movie that doesn't play in a significant amount of DVD players may well be what the "manufacturer intended" but I'm sure he the manufacturer could intend to package a turd in a box, call it beef jerky, and it would be as he intended it, doesn't make the product a piece of shit.
Ah, but there is. And I'm sure the Wal-marts of the world have enough clout to force the manufacture to take back his own dog food. And most of the other chain stores as well.
After all, they can just decide not to carry certain movies at all, or at least Sony's.
It shouldn't be called a "new type of DVD" nor sold as such.
Maybe I'm wrong, but like some "CDs" in the past that incorporated some copy protection and couldn't carry the CD logo/seal any longer on the cover, wouldn't the same thing apply here? Can Sony legimitately still call this thing a DVD anymore without being sued for fraud?
If I wanted to mess around with getting Windows apps working, I would be installing them on Linux with WINE or running them on Windows in virtualization (Virtualbox).
Oh wait, I do that already:) Should I have some schadenfreude that Window users get to join the fun or be more sympathetic? In any case, I suppose this won't prompt any developers of normal apps to develop them in a way to become platform independent (Firefox seem to do just fine as a large project...)
If you are replying to my request for a usb device that intercepts qwerty signals and traslates them into dvorak signals, I have all my computers set on dvorak layout.
However, there are times I use a computer at other places, at work or at school, where the system is so locked down that I cannot change the layout in software - yet I have access to the hardware.
I would find such a device easier to use than to lug around a dvorak keyboard just for that purpose.