Of course, given current Clie pricing, it'd cost about a thousand dollars with a phone. But you'd be able to sleep better at night knowing you've given an RIAA member and GPL violator your money.
The OPs analogy was perfect. the 10.2.x updates you describe are hotfixes, and the 10.x are service packs. The difference being that even the big bad evil MS doesn't charge for service packs; and if they did, they'd be tarred and feathered here. But it's OK for Apple to charge for them.
Mod me down for telling the truth. I've got the karma.
Non sequitur. All file sharing is banned, whether legitimate or not
2) The University, as an ISP, is legally responsible for what its users do, thanks to the DMCA
Just the opposite. The DMCA gives a safe harbord to any ISP, UF included, provided they comply with requests for takedown and/or subpeonas, which they would have to do anyway.
3) ~90% of file transfers over P2P are copyrighted material and illegal
Even if that is correct, 10% is a more than substantial non-infringing use.
4) There's no realistic way to tell if any given file being transferred over the network is legal or not
And that is not a business UF should be in. Neither should it be in the business of blocking any collaboration between individuals on the chance that a student might do something illegal. Prior restraint of speech has no place at a university.
Regional accrediation. If you ever want to go to grad school, or if your employer is savvy about this, the "accredidation" claimed by some schools isn't worth a hill of beans. (ACCIS, in fact, used to be the AICS, which claimed accredidation from the bogus "World Association of Universities and Colleges.")
There is a list of accreditors recognized by the U.S. Department of Education--make sure your school's accreditor is on it, and verify with that accreditor that the it accredits the school--before you spend your first dime.
Also, even though the Distance Education and Training Council (through which AACIS now has accredidation) is a recognized accreditor, a degree earned from an insitution accredided by it will not be as well regarded as one from a school with regional accredidation.
I agree with that--I bought personal licenses for both Linux and Win32 when they had the good pricing. But when it became as much as I paid just to upgrade, I stuck with the old versions.
Griffin Powermate's tolerable for tempest, but the spinner knob on a Logitech Wingman Warrior is much better (it'll freewheel, the Powermate will not). (eBay is your friend.) Regrettable, there are no drivers for Win32 > 98. Haven't tried it with xmame under Linux, but it could probably be gottent to work.
I agree that they shouldn't intentionally crash an IM client, but an IM client shouldn't crash because of a bad or unexpected network response, either.
The software continues to function even if you don't renew your.Mac subscription.
If that's the case, I have no beef with it--I was under the impression that to continue to be able to backup to CDR or DVD-R, one had to continue the.mac subscription to keep that ability from "expiring."
I paid $10 back in the day, renewed because they were very nice about fixing up my account when I lost the free email service I had used to register initially. I abhor subscription software, but since paying gives me perpetual right to use, I just think of it as "upgrade insurance," a happy medium between a subscription and outright purchase.
And now they're throwing in a site with troubleshooting information! Look out, Hotmail and Geocities! And now, with Version Tracker, you have access to all kinds of technical information that PC users already get free, as part of your.mac subscription--woohoo!
It's not really a fix--just instructions on how to edit the INI file to turn off auto connect to Yahoo. Otherwise Trillian will crash on startup when it tries to connect.
Ouch! Hope you can get it sorted, or find an ISP that won't throttle (if that's indeed what's going on).
You could ring them up and say "Gosh, it looks like I can hardly download anything at all--it's so slow!" as innocently as you can and see if they admit to the practice:).
They can't have it both ways and expect to keep customers.
Sure they can--they are generally monopolies in their service areas, and each little fiefdom city/county/township isn't going to risk killing the golden goose of "franchise fees" by upsetting the apple cart and introducing competition.
I use Virgin Mobile. It's prepaid, so charges are by the minute--but cheaper for me as a low volume user. The beauty? The 25c/min. (decreases to 10c/min. after the first 10 minutes/day) includes all taxes, regulatory fees, what-have-you. Full disclosure, no surprises.
The cost of them doing business has just gone up, just as McDonalds costs would go up if the price of beef were to suddenly double. And, just as McDonalds would have to raise its prices in that scenario, Vonage is now having to raise its prices to take account of these additional costs.
So, if the price of beef doubled, do you think they would just increase the price of a Big Mac to $6.00 or that they'd advertise and charge $3.00 and then collect a $3.00 "beef price adjustment surcharge?"
Even if you like the current administration, are you so confident that future administrations will all use their newly begotten powers only for good? That's the real question.
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You took Latin, didn't you? :)
Of course, given current Clie pricing, it'd cost about a thousand dollars with a phone. But you'd be able to sleep better at night knowing you've given an RIAA member and GPL violator your money.
I don't have a Beowulf cluster of Soviet Alabman kegs, you insensitve clod!
Maybe we need an "Ask Slashdot" about home distillation tips.
Mod me down for telling the truth. I've got the karma.
Non sequitur. All file sharing is banned, whether legitimate or not
2) The University, as an ISP, is legally responsible for what its users do, thanks to the DMCAJust the opposite. The DMCA gives a safe harbord to any ISP, UF included, provided they comply with requests for takedown and/or subpeonas, which they would have to do anyway.
3) ~90% of file transfers over P2P are copyrighted material and illegal
Even if that is correct, 10% is a more than substantial non-infringing use.
4) There's no realistic way to tell if any given file being transferred over the network is legal or not
And that is not a business UF should be in. Neither should it be in the business of blocking any collaboration between individuals on the chance that a student might do something illegal. Prior restraint of speech has no place at a university.
There is a list of accreditors recognized by the U.S. Department of Education--make sure your school's accreditor is on it, and verify with that accreditor that the it accredits the school--before you spend your first dime.
Also, even though the Distance Education and Training Council (through which AACIS now has accredidation) is a recognized accreditor, a degree earned from an insitution accredided by it will not be as well regarded as one from a school with regional accredidation.
I agree with that--I bought personal licenses for both Linux and Win32 when they had the good pricing. But when it became as much as I paid just to upgrade, I stuck with the old versions.
Thanks for the tip!
Griffin Powermate's tolerable for tempest, but the spinner knob on a Logitech Wingman Warrior is much better (it'll freewheel, the Powermate will not). (eBay is your friend.) Regrettable, there are no drivers for Win32 > 98. Haven't tried it with xmame under Linux, but it could probably be gottent to work.
I agree that they shouldn't intentionally crash an IM client, but an IM client shouldn't crash because of a bad or unexpected network response, either.
If that's the case, I have no beef with it--I was under the impression that to continue to be able to backup to CDR or DVD-R, one had to continue the .mac subscription to keep that ability from "expiring."
I paid $10 back in the day, renewed because they were very nice about fixing up my account when I lost the free email service I had used to register initially. I abhor subscription software, but since paying gives me perpetual right to use, I just think of it as "upgrade insurance," a happy medium between a subscription and outright purchase.
And now they're throwing in a site with troubleshooting information! Look out, Hotmail and Geocities! And now, with Version Tracker, you have access to all kinds of technical information that PC users already get free, as part of your .mac subscription--woohoo!
Thanks--grabbed it!
Seig Heil!
It's not really a fix--just instructions on how to edit the INI file to turn off auto connect to Yahoo. Otherwise Trillian will crash on startup when it tries to connect.
You could ring them up and say "Gosh, it looks like I can hardly download anything at all--it's so slow!" as innocently as you can and see if they admit to the practice :).
Sure they can--they are generally monopolies in their service areas, and each little fiefdom city/county/township isn't going to risk killing the golden goose of "franchise fees" by upsetting the apple cart and introducing competition.
You sure you're not saturating your upstream? The inability to send ACKs timely will kill download speeds.
I use Virgin Mobile. It's prepaid, so charges are by the minute--but cheaper for me as a low volume user. The beauty? The 25c/min. (decreases to 10c/min. after the first 10 minutes/day) includes all taxes, regulatory fees, what-have-you. Full disclosure, no surprises.
So, if the price of beef doubled, do you think they would just increase the price of a Big Mac to $6.00 or that they'd advertise and charge $3.00 and then collect a $3.00 "beef price adjustment surcharge?"
- make it look like a "tax"
- advertise an artificially low price
Traditional phone companies pull this same crap--Vonage is just copying that standard practice.
Excellent! And if this is still fuzzy, read Dostoevsky!
Even if you like the current administration, are you so confident that future administrations will all use their newly begotten powers only for good? That's the real question.