That made me laugh soo loud! You hit the bullseye with that one. It's so funny to watch people fromt he southern states speak about anything. I love how sports players credit their abilities and hardwork to some magic man called 'god' as opposed to their parents sports backgrounds, hard work, and spending their entire life playing that sport.
Perhaps because Rogers Video's and Block Buster's and anyone selling or renting DVD's will start bringing in only the 'NEW DVD (R+)' version and if you want to use it you'll have to upgrade, and once a bunch of idiot, clueless people upgrade then everyone else will be stuck in the dark as they will be getting enough profits to survive and push the new shaddy hardware.
Did you not listen to me at all? I said not in heavy traffic... ie. 2 lanes, 5kms, say 20cars.. I don't have to drive 20kms under the speed limit because someone can't learn to drive the appropriate speeds. What your talking about is heavy traffic, and in heavy traffic weaving is retarded and unsafe (BECAUSE you get NO WHERE FAST and you are too close when making lane changes!).
Next time read and UNDERSTAND my comment before you bash it.
I always find it interesting how if driving through traffic and both lanes are going slow as crap, and you proceed to pass a few people (with blinker on, checking blind spots, etc... ) and (obviously not in heavy traffic where you can't get anywhere anyways) that your weaving and risking peoples lives. Driving the speeed limit or 5-10km over, and making safe lane changes IS not threatening anyones life. The people who consistantly drive 20-30km under the speed limit in good weather are the ones who can cause deadly accidents. Accidents are up every year for senior citizens and most of them are caused by them being soo scared, and going so slow... ugh..
...that religion is the cause of or a factor in all wars. I believe that religious followers may some day destroy our planet. I also believe religion is good at teaching morals, but that's about it.
Scott Peterson in particular will walk free because jurors are convinced now by popular media that not only is there always DNA evidence for a crime, it is now a necessary precondition for guilt...because heck, they always find it in the last five minutes of CSI.
CSI for the majority of the episodes usually shows that feelings, emotions, etc don't matter of the person (jury, police man, etc..) its the evidence the matters. I can't see how this show negatively effects a jury's deliberation.
Did anyone hear that pay-per-view pulled Micheal Moore's movie and yet a 'non-biased' broadcasting company is playing a 'anti-kerry' movie on 67 channels? If any of you caught Leno last night you'll see Moore offered his movie for free to that same 'un-biased' company. When they don't take it, it will just show how un-biased media is in the US. Glad I'm a canadian! But I am a little scared of Bush being in power for another 4years...
Any euro beer or canadian beer is good in my books... so long as its not water like all that american beer. I do very much enjoy Blue.. or as americans call it "Labatts" LOL!!
Funny thing I went to the states and at a resturant I said, what Labatt's do you have on tap or in a bottle? and she said "oh you mean blue, we have both" lol There's about ~75 Labatt's beer's!! oh the humour!
I've been a primary participant in running Smackdown in london ontario. Last year we had our best tounout and we were able to easily break even.
Suggestions:
1) Spend 3-4months at minimum planning the event, weekly meetings, etc...
2) Ensure your network and power setup is solid. Power is one of the most important things to consider, the last thing you want is 300 gamers bitching and asking when the power is coming back on in the corner, or near the door, or whatever.
3) Your hall costs, power costs and insurance (A great idea, however if you get an appropriate center ie. A large gathering hall at a hotel.. and make everyone sign a "were not responsible for equipment or you're own stupidity" then that would do it... (I would speak to whom ever is allowing you to host it. ie. hotel manager, warehouse owner... etc..)
4) Big companies in the gaming industry usually can provide some large door prizes (ie. amd, intel, radeon, nvidia, etc..)
5) Local computer stores could be charged to have a booth to sell network cards/cables/fans/anything that a gamer my want, or need because of a hardware failure.
6) If you don't want to charge computer companies for attendance, have one of them provide a large prize (ie. computer case built with components for the gaming geek (top of the line everything).
7) Have extra people to help, and try not to run too many tounrments!!! Be specific with times, odds are you will run late.
8) When it comes to games, one thing that worked good for us was the signup form had about 15 checkboxes with games, q3a, ut2k4, wc3, cs, et, etc... and after we had a 'chunk' of gamers signed up we annonced the official game tounrments, and we also provided a few 'public' game servers for some of the games that weren't being run in official tounrments.
9) RUN IT 24hours, I don't care if its a 2 day lan or 12day lan, if you run it 24hours, you never have to worry about a gamer not having a wonderful time.
10) Have it near hotels & downtown (bars for older gamers).
11) Do not allow drugs/alcohol in the gaming room (duh, but I just thought I'd mention it).
12) A very important one... Have gamers under 18 have a signature from their guardian on the signup sheet at the door.
13) If your concerned about stolen equipment, check everyone in, and check everyone out. If someone leaves with equipment, you should have people on 'security' that will stop anyone caring equipment out. Our rules were "If you take your system out, you're done for the weekend" and "We are not responsible for your system, cd's, mouse, keyboard, etc... You don't want people brining equipment in and out all weekend, that makes it easy for people to steal things.
My $0.02...
Fyi. A lot of the guys from WAG (We are gamers ) were not able to participate this year ( aka. life ) and the event did not occur. However the event was started 6years ago, and ran better every year, starting with 114 people, finish last year with 300people++ and turning people away at the door who didn't pre-register because we were over capacity.
Oh ya and advertising, ONLINE, on gaming servers, on irc, around the city, and if you can somehow get it, a radio blurb. Word of mouth is great, especially if you have 20minions spreading the word everyday ( at college/university/work/etc.. ) :)
Well considering I just arrived here through heavy traffic (it's the start of a long weekend in Canada), I can't agree with this auto black box thing. I saw 2 slow drivers in front of me almost both cause accidents, and yet they were both traveling at significant slower speeds (closer to speed limit) and breaking far earlier then myself. I'm 22 years old, and I have plenty of driving experience (living in the country driving since 16). Frankly, I don't see how 'slow driver' = a good driver.... I have been in one accident... and you'd guess it, some 40year old drunk smoked me, and I tried to avoid, but having a 91' sundance just didn't even me quick traction and speed I needed to avoid a drunk who turned infront of me 10feet before I was about to go through the lights. I cannot see how anyone would justify that a slow driver is a safe one. My mother for example drivers dead on the speed limit, she has never caused an accident... but she's been hit 4 times, 3 from behind, and 1 from the side... she's a good driver.. but very timid on the road, and if she was a little more aggressive she may have avoided one or two of those unfortunate accidents. Someone earlier stated that this device is what all safe drivers should want, and personally I consider myself a safe driver, and I want a device that records when people cut other drivers off, turn without turning signals, break and swirve into traffic for little squirrels, etc.. I do not however want a device that says "SPEED LIMIT 50" actual speed "67" = BAD DRIVER. Often times, and I was even told this in drivers ED that going with the FLOW of traffic is more safe then sticking to the speed limit, especially if the speed change is reasonable. Just my $0.02 from north of the border.
If IBM added code to linux for which they didn't own the copyright - then its not GPL'ed even if the original author distrubutes the code that IBM added to to linux without proper copyrights. I agree they own the copyright to the stuff they wrote - hence the word "independent" in the memorandum.
Actually I'm almost positive that regardless of who put the code in, if the ACTUAL owner of the code distributes it knowingly and continues to do so then said code is GPL'd because they authorized it by a) releasing it with they're software b) continueing to do so. Also I'd like to point out what someone else previously mentioned... if SCO says the gpl is invalid and therefore the code they have had available for download is therefore not gpl'd then they have a lawsuit coming because they've infringed every single developer whois submitted code.
I clearly remember already reading this article that stated the UK and USA would be the only countries to receive live web coverage. There was a section about how CBC (in canada) was not going to be part of this and canadians would have to suffer with just highlights.
Guys, this is a site that has spent most of its existance producing chemicals,etc.. weapons. This is not a nuclear power plant site. Please read the article and stop modding people as informative for saying nuclear power isn't clean the article is not about nuclear power.
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by FractusMan (711004) * on Wednesday July 21, @03:03PM (#9762349)
While yes, there are people who use modchips to play their own, homebrew games, and play imported games, let's not overlook the obvious. People put modchips in their consoles so they can play stolen (ie, burned) games. If people did NOT use modchips for that purpose, this law wouldn't be necessary. But the fact is that the UK high court is not 'ruining your rights' - it's the people who copy and sell games illegally that ruin the fun for everyone. The UK is merely taking steps to stop that. Whether the steps are too far, I don't know and won't argue. But don't think that this is a cut and dried case of trampling of rights. Go bitch at your friends who have a bunch of "Backup copies" of games.
So if I understand you correctly then soon we will see Firearms banned in the UK, I hope that is the case here in Canada as well. Our gun violence is pretty low, but in certain area(s) it seems to be rising a bit. After all don't blame the judge, blame the criminals that used the guns to hurt other people.
I don't think stealing is right. I also don't agree with paying $10 for a movie to find out it sucks ass and actually wasted my time as opposed to entertained me. I've been to the theaters at least 10 times this last year, and rented over 50 movies. I've downloaded about 15 movies, some I've already seen in theaters and rented, and some I wouldn't pay to see anyways. As far as I'm concerned downloading a movie your not going to go pay to watch anyways isn't hurting them one bit, and if I actually like it, me and some friends will rent it sometime were out and about. Having movies available for download doesn't reap all the profits, I personally think it increases sales. Just like music sales were up, but shipments were down. Anyone can twist numbers anyway they want, and thats exactly what this is. If downloading a movie is so wrong, perhaps they would be happier if I didn't spend...
aprox $550 on movie entertainment last year.
Note: that's going on the assumption I rented about 50 movies, which I clearly rented more and assuming I only saw 10 and paid for my gf, which we probably also saw more.
Your virus free? worm free? how bout adware and spyware I'd bet money you have some!
http://www.earthlink.net/spyaudit
Let us know how things are.
Planning a full switch to linux after being emailed about mono this morning!:)
How many people is a small group? You realize lan parties are getting increasingly more popular every year, thus increasing this so called 'small' group. If this group is still considered small now, within another few years I'm sure it will meet your 'medium' size group standard.
Its a pretty interesting idea, and they mention downloading music and then broadcasting it.. that would be pretty cool. But honestly when your outdoors and away in the woods, at least around here, there's no chance in hell anyone has wireless. You bring beer, fishing pool, tents, food, boat or some variant and a woman if it so pleases you. No electronics, just an ample supply of beer is the key.
I can't believe they would do something like this. As far as I've seen AMD has been stealing market share faster and faster every day and by doing this they're only encouranging every gamer who still has intel to purchase an AMD system. Everyone knows that the gaming industry is driving computer hardware and software to new levels; For intel to be cutting it's ties with the gaming industry is like shooting yourself in the foot.
This has nothing to do with warrenty issues, and everything to do with Intel wanting people to continuely upgrade for the faster chips right when they come out. (When prices' are high).
I drive 30minutes+ everyday. I find the biggest problem on the road is people who are unable to succesfully complete a lane change or turn a corner without coming to a virtual stand still. People who are hesitant when making lane changes, and slow down to extremely slow speeds when making lane changes and turns are the ones that cause T-Bone accidents and fender benders all over the place. I've witnessed 7 accidents as a driver, most at intersections. All were caused by someone hesitating or for example turning out and going extremely slow not giving the driver with the right of way enough time to slow down thus causing a collision. I've also been hit by a drunk driver. Yes, I am a speeder. The fact that I'm confident in how I drive, know my limits and allways drive around or below the speed limit in poor weather does not make me a bad or evil person for speeding on dry pavement with good traction and visibility. Having a light that auto-matically changes when I'm coming up on it and going 10km/h (5m/h) over the speed limit not only puts me at a risk for causing an accident if someone turns left infront of me and the light changes with too little room for me to stop before the light. My personal opinion is that people who are going below the speed limit in good weather, speeding in poor weather or speeding excessively are the ones who should be getting tickets. Going 100km/hr in a posted 80km/hr with plenty of room infront and behind and perfectly dry pavement on a stretch of straight road is not unsafe. Going 60km/h in a posted 80km/h is unsafe and I've witnessed some near high speed collisions from someone traveling at such a reduced speed. If you cannot drive the speedlimit, you are uncomfortable with your driving abilities and you should not be on the road. This obviously doesn't include farm vihicles with flashing lights or signs or any other type of vihicle that is displaying a reduced speed warning.
My $0.02! why should we slow traffic down more? theres allready way to many people driving below the speed limits. If everyone drove the speed limit I would never have to speed, and my trips would allways be the same length as opposed to having to speed for 15minutes and go below the speed limit for 15minutes to make my 30minute trip take 30minutes!@@#$!@
I think I've seen nothing in all my news paper reading and web browsing to support claims that Piracy is hurting the industry. Their inability to provide quality music in the last few years, couple'd with sueing the people who feed them has caused this decline in sales.
Is rogers standing up for its customers? I sure hope so... I can't get anything here but rogers highspeed cable internet access, nothing else is available!
Some many of us have been thinking the same thing for so long. "Pump and Dump" or "Microsoft funding frivolous lawsuits to combat its biggest competitor (Open Source)" It took them long enough but apparently there actually going to look into this a bit, perhaps we will see Microsoft and SCO in court together, with their ass will be on the line.
Whoever these people are I'm unware what they're smoking. Theres plenty of posts on this topic about how this is "smart business" and other such related comments. This is far from smart business, this is monopolistic business, and something CEO's go to jail for. I hope sooner or later Microsoft's door gets kicked in, and people who are responsible for these decesions and anyone involved are removed from the company and then maybe Microsoft will be a respectable company.
The Justice department should be all over this, funding a crazy litigation attempt versus your primary rival, wtf someone needs to do there job and stop this crap.
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That made me laugh soo loud! You hit the bullseye with that one. It's so funny to watch people fromt he southern states speak about anything. I love how sports players credit their abilities and hardwork to some magic man called 'god' as opposed to their parents sports backgrounds, hard work, and spending their entire life playing that sport.
Perhaps because Rogers Video's and Block Buster's and anyone selling or renting DVD's will start bringing in only the 'NEW DVD (R+)' version and if you want to use it you'll have to upgrade, and once a bunch of idiot, clueless people upgrade then everyone else will be stuck in the dark as they will be getting enough profits to survive and push the new shaddy hardware.
Did you not listen to me at all? I said not in heavy traffic... ie. 2 lanes, 5kms, say 20cars.. I don't have to drive 20kms under the speed limit because someone can't learn to drive the appropriate speeds. What your talking about is heavy traffic, and in heavy traffic weaving is retarded and unsafe (BECAUSE you get NO WHERE FAST and you are too close when making lane changes!).
Next time read and UNDERSTAND my comment before you bash it.
I always find it interesting how if driving through traffic and both lanes are going slow as crap, and you proceed to pass a few people (with blinker on, checking blind spots, etc... ) and (obviously not in heavy traffic where you can't get anywhere anyways) that your weaving and risking peoples lives. Driving the speeed limit or 5-10km over, and making safe lane changes IS not threatening anyones life. The people who consistantly drive 20-30km under the speed limit in good weather are the ones who can cause deadly accidents. Accidents are up every year for senior citizens and most of them are caused by them being soo scared, and going so slow... ugh..
...that religion is the cause of or a factor in all wars. I believe that religious followers may some day destroy our planet. I also believe religion is good at teaching morals, but that's about it.
Perhaps you should take you're own advice. I just spent time reading up on that google'd topic.
CSI for the majority of the episodes usually shows that feelings, emotions, etc don't matter of the person (jury, police man, etc..) its the evidence the matters. I can't see how this show negatively effects a jury's deliberation.
Did anyone hear that pay-per-view pulled Micheal Moore's movie and yet a 'non-biased' broadcasting company is playing a 'anti-kerry' movie on 67 channels? If any of you caught Leno last night you'll see Moore offered his movie for free to that same 'un-biased' company. When they don't take it, it will just show how un-biased media is in the US. Glad I'm a canadian! But I am a little scared of Bush being in power for another 4years...
Any euro beer or canadian beer is good in my books... so long as its not water like all that american beer. I do very much enjoy Blue.. or as americans call it "Labatts" LOL!!
Funny thing I went to the states and at a resturant I said, what Labatt's do you have on tap or in a bottle? and she said "oh you mean blue, we have both" lol There's about ~75 Labatt's beer's!! oh the humour!
I've been a primary participant in running Smackdown in london ontario. Last year we had our best tounout and we were able to easily break even.
:)
Suggestions:
1) Spend 3-4months at minimum planning the event, weekly meetings, etc...
2) Ensure your network and power setup is solid. Power is one of the most important things to consider, the last thing you want is 300 gamers bitching and asking when the power is coming back on in the corner, or near the door, or whatever.
3) Your hall costs, power costs and insurance (A great idea, however if you get an appropriate center ie. A large gathering hall at a hotel.. and make everyone sign a "were not responsible for equipment or you're own stupidity" then that would do it... (I would speak to whom ever is allowing you to host it. ie. hotel manager, warehouse owner... etc..) 4) Big companies in the gaming industry usually can provide some large door prizes (ie. amd, intel, radeon, nvidia, etc..)
5) Local computer stores could be charged to have a booth to sell network cards/cables/fans/anything that a gamer my want, or need because of a hardware failure.
6) If you don't want to charge computer companies for attendance, have one of them provide a large prize (ie. computer case built with components for the gaming geek (top of the line everything).
7) Have extra people to help, and try not to run too many tounrments!!! Be specific with times, odds are you will run late.
8) When it comes to games, one thing that worked good for us was the signup form had about 15 checkboxes with games, q3a, ut2k4, wc3, cs, et, etc... and after we had a 'chunk' of gamers signed up we annonced the official game tounrments, and we also provided a few 'public' game servers for some of the games that weren't being run in official tounrments.
9) RUN IT 24hours, I don't care if its a 2 day lan or 12day lan, if you run it 24hours, you never have to worry about a gamer not having a wonderful time.
10) Have it near hotels & downtown (bars for older gamers).
11) Do not allow drugs/alcohol in the gaming room (duh, but I just thought I'd mention it).
12) A very important one... Have gamers under 18 have a signature from their guardian on the signup sheet at the door.
13) If your concerned about stolen equipment, check everyone in, and check everyone out. If someone leaves with equipment, you should have people on 'security' that will stop anyone caring equipment out. Our rules were "If you take your system out, you're done for the weekend" and "We are not responsible for your system, cd's, mouse, keyboard, etc... You don't want people brining equipment in and out all weekend, that makes it easy for people to steal things.
My $0.02...
Fyi. A lot of the guys from WAG (We are gamers ) were not able to participate this year ( aka. life ) and the event did not occur. However the event was started 6years ago, and ran better every year, starting with 114 people, finish last year with 300people++ and turning people away at the door who didn't pre-register because we were over capacity.
Oh ya and advertising, ONLINE, on gaming servers, on irc, around the city, and if you can somehow get it, a radio blurb. Word of mouth is great, especially if you have 20minions spreading the word everyday ( at college/university/work/etc.. )
Well considering I just arrived here through heavy traffic (it's the start of a long weekend in Canada), I can't agree with this auto black box thing. I saw 2 slow drivers in front of me almost both cause accidents, and yet they were both traveling at significant slower speeds (closer to speed limit) and breaking far earlier then myself. I'm 22 years old, and I have plenty of driving experience (living in the country driving since 16). Frankly, I don't see how 'slow driver' = a good driver.... I have been in one accident... and you'd guess it, some 40year old drunk smoked me, and I tried to avoid, but having a 91' sundance just didn't even me quick traction and speed I needed to avoid a drunk who turned infront of me 10feet before I was about to go through the lights. I cannot see how anyone would justify that a slow driver is a safe one. My mother for example drivers dead on the speed limit, she has never caused an accident... but she's been hit 4 times, 3 from behind, and 1 from the side... she's a good driver.. but very timid on the road, and if she was a little more aggressive she may have avoided one or two of those unfortunate accidents. Someone earlier stated that this device is what all safe drivers should want, and personally I consider myself a safe driver, and I want a device that records when people cut other drivers off, turn without turning signals, break and swirve into traffic for little squirrels, etc.. I do not however want a device that says "SPEED LIMIT 50" actual speed "67" = BAD DRIVER. Often times, and I was even told this in drivers ED that going with the FLOW of traffic is more safe then sticking to the speed limit, especially if the speed change is reasonable. Just my $0.02 from north of the border.
Actually I'm almost positive that regardless of who put the code in, if the ACTUAL owner of the code distributes it knowingly and continues to do so then said code is GPL'd because they authorized it by a) releasing it with they're software b) continueing to do so. Also I'd like to point out what someone else previously mentioned... if SCO says the gpl is invalid and therefore the code they have had available for download is therefore not gpl'd then they have a lawsuit coming because they've infringed every single developer whois submitted code.
I clearly remember already reading this article that stated the UK and USA would be the only countries to receive live web coverage. There was a section about how CBC (in canada) was not going to be part of this and canadians would have to suffer with just highlights.
Guys, this is a site that has spent most of its existance producing chemicals,etc.. weapons. This is not a nuclear power plant site. Please read the article and stop modding people as informative for saying nuclear power isn't clean the article is not about nuclear power.
I don't think stealing is right. I also don't agree with paying $10 for a movie to find out it sucks ass and actually wasted my time as opposed to entertained me. I've been to the theaters at least 10 times this last year, and rented over 50 movies. I've downloaded about 15 movies, some I've already seen in theaters and rented, and some I wouldn't pay to see anyways. As far as I'm concerned downloading a movie your not going to go pay to watch anyways isn't hurting them one bit, and if I actually like it, me and some friends will rent it sometime were out and about. Having movies available for download doesn't reap all the profits, I personally think it increases sales. Just like music sales were up, but shipments were down. Anyone can twist numbers anyway they want, and thats exactly what this is. If downloading a movie is so wrong, perhaps they would be happier if I didn't spend...
aprox $550 on movie entertainment last year.
Note: that's going on the assumption I rented about 50 movies, which I clearly rented more and assuming I only saw 10 and paid for my gf, which we probably also saw more.
Your virus free? worm free? how bout adware and spyware I'd bet money you have some! http://www.earthlink.net/spyaudit Let us know how things are. :)
Planning a full switch to linux after being emailed about mono this morning!
How many people is a small group? You realize lan parties are getting increasingly more popular every year, thus increasing this so called 'small' group. If this group is still considered small now, within another few years I'm sure it will meet your 'medium' size group standard.
Its a pretty interesting idea, and they mention downloading music and then broadcasting it.. that would be pretty cool. But honestly when your outdoors and away in the woods, at least around here, there's no chance in hell anyone has wireless. You bring beer, fishing pool, tents, food, boat or some variant and a woman if it so pleases you. No electronics, just an ample supply of beer is the key.
:)
By around here, I meant Ontario, Canada.
I can't believe they would do something like this. As far as I've seen AMD has been stealing market share faster and faster every day and by doing this they're only encouranging every gamer who still has intel to purchase an AMD system. Everyone knows that the gaming industry is driving computer hardware and software to new levels; For intel to be cutting it's ties with the gaming industry is like shooting yourself in the foot.
This has nothing to do with warrenty issues, and everything to do with Intel wanting people to continuely upgrade for the faster chips right when they come out. (When prices' are high).
I drive 30minutes+ everyday. I find the biggest problem on the road is people who are unable to succesfully complete a lane change or turn a corner without coming to a virtual stand still. People who are hesitant when making lane changes, and slow down to extremely slow speeds when making lane changes and turns are the ones that cause T-Bone accidents and fender benders all over the place. I've witnessed 7 accidents as a driver, most at intersections. All were caused by someone hesitating or for example turning out and going extremely slow not giving the driver with the right of way enough time to slow down thus causing a collision. I've also been hit by a drunk driver. Yes, I am a speeder. The fact that I'm confident in how I drive, know my limits and allways drive around or below the speed limit in poor weather does not make me a bad or evil person for speeding on dry pavement with good traction and visibility. Having a light that auto-matically changes when I'm coming up on it and going 10km/h (5m/h) over the speed limit not only puts me at a risk for causing an accident if someone turns left infront of me and the light changes with too little room for me to stop before the light. My personal opinion is that people who are going below the speed limit in good weather, speeding in poor weather or speeding excessively are the ones who should be getting tickets. Going 100km/hr in a posted 80km/hr with plenty of room infront and behind and perfectly dry pavement on a stretch of straight road is not unsafe. Going 60km/h in a posted 80km/h is unsafe and I've witnessed some near high speed collisions from someone traveling at such a reduced speed. If you cannot drive the speedlimit, you are uncomfortable with your driving abilities and you should not be on the road. This obviously doesn't include farm vihicles with flashing lights or signs or any other type of vihicle that is displaying a reduced speed warning.
My $0.02! why should we slow traffic down more? theres allready way to many people driving below the speed limits. If everyone drove the speed limit I would never have to speed, and my trips would allways be the same length as opposed to having to speed for 15minutes and go below the speed limit for 15minutes to make my 30minute trip take 30minutes!@@#$!@
I think I've seen nothing in all my news paper reading and web browsing to support claims that Piracy is hurting the industry. Their inability to provide quality music in the last few years, couple'd with sueing the people who feed them has caused this decline in sales.
My $0.02
Is rogers standing up for its customers? I sure hope so... I can't get anything here but rogers highspeed cable internet access, nothing else is available!
Some many of us have been thinking the same thing for so long. "Pump and Dump" or "Microsoft funding frivolous lawsuits to combat its biggest competitor (Open Source)" It took them long enough but apparently there actually going to look into this a bit, perhaps we will see Microsoft and SCO in court together, with their ass will be on the line.
What the hell took so long?
Whoever these people are I'm unware what they're smoking. Theres plenty of posts on this topic about how this is "smart business" and other such related comments. This is far from smart business, this is monopolistic business, and something CEO's go to jail for. I hope sooner or later Microsoft's door gets kicked in, and people who are responsible for these decesions and anyone involved are removed from the company and then maybe Microsoft will be a respectable company.
The Justice department should be all over this, funding a crazy litigation attempt versus your primary rival, wtf someone needs to do there job and stop this crap.