I miss the baggy with the microscopic star fleet in it as well as the extra fluff. Don't need the glasses however, kept bumping into things. Seemed I was constantly in danger.
So how does this help? The emails sending people to fake PayPal pages will still work. For some reason, the people trying to steal your money dont follow the PayPal rules.
Been using it since its inception and have yet to have any problems. On the other hand I have seen bounced checks, fake/stolen credit card numbers etc.
I know people have had problems with PayPal, and I'm not saying its perfect. However I've yet to see a better option.
What do you think would have happened if it had been purchased with a stolen credit card, check book, etc? Same thing. PayPal is not acting any different then any other group in that position, in fact the have a legal responsibility to do what they do. Ownership of stolen funds or goods does not change when they change hands for a second time. Pawn shops get burned in this manor a lot.
From a sellers perspective I can see the desire to take other forms of payment, but as a buyer there is massive appeal for the use of PayPal. With how its integrated into eBay it makes conflict resolution much simpler and gives you a means of tracking and proving receipt of funds.
The only thing I would want to see added to the service is an escrow option. But the idea of sending a wire transfer, check or money order to some unknown entity on the internet sounds like a bad idea.
As drive sizes have been going up, overall the warranty periods have been going down. With few exceptions (Seagate does three years) drives have a one year expected life time.
Here's the problem however. The small developer (guy in his living room writing cool software) cant offer services. What I keep seeing with open source is guy in living room makes cool software, big company takes it and sells services. Not really a "bad" thing, but not that good for the people making the cool stuff in the first place.
Other models such as Adobe Flex do work well with open source however. But I would prefer to find a licensing model that doesn't require the initial creator giving up all future rights to their work. Even geeks need to make a living.
I know its not a popular subject around here, but putting Linux on a notebook costs money as well. There has to be someone to call when it doesn't work.
but they should be allowed one solid punch to each of the RIAA lawyers. Above the belt if its a some what reasonable case, or bellow if its one of the "computer illiterate grandma" types.
In addition, their punch should be able to be done by a third party proxy to make sure it hurts. And thus a new service industry could be born.
"You're not competing against film majors for fellowships, scholarships, graduate programs and jobs."
Um, yes you are. At least in the software industry. Most of the higher ups at places like Autodesk, Microsoft etc are not computer majors but liberal arts or science. Most of the jobs I've gone after want a degree, but they don't care what its in because they know that what's taught in schools is often not relevant to the work.
Last I cheked, CD readers where still around. That's the first real main stream didgital format and it has not yet reached the point where we have to move data off of it for fear of it being unreadable.
I've never been impressed with the "they did it too!" defense. All this realy means is that other peole can in turn sue Viacom under the same terms that they're suing Google.
Two words that make me not ever want to buy another Creative product....
Windows Drivers
Not sure why you would want to subject Linux to those resource hungry, crash causing, never working drivers. But what ever helps you make it through the day I guess.
Use to be that a Sound Blaster was a simple audio card that just worked. Then they started adding firewire and other crap that I dont need to it and the resources just started going away. If I need MIDI or digital audio I'll buy a pro level card. I just want to play the frikin game.
There are a lot of us, myself included, that are irreversably intermeshed with the microsoft file formats. I'd rather have a published standard then not.
For the less nerdy (go find your own message board), C99 is the most recent ISO standard for the C programming language. The numbers refer to the year it was introduced. C99 is an update of C89 and C78. Logic would tell us that we should be at C07 or there about. But such is the way of standards.
There are all sorts of ISO standards that people refuse to use in their current form. Not seeing this one as that big of a deal however. I'd rather have a published standard for microsoft interoperation via XML file formats then the old.doc &.xsl files.
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I miss the baggy with the microscopic star fleet in it as well as the extra fluff. Don't need the glasses however, kept bumping into things. Seemed I was constantly in danger.
So how does this help? The emails sending people to fake PayPal pages will still work. For some reason, the people trying to steal your money dont follow the PayPal rules.
All I see is "Local ISPs cure cancer. All hail SBC!"
Do you have any idea how much time it takes to write alt tags for all this porn?
Damn that Sara Conner, keeps blowin up mah robots!
Course, we can always make more death bots.
No. If you receive stolen funds, you are under a legal obligation to return the money.
"If it were a bank, the merchant would pay for the loss or the bank will bear it."
In this case, you are the merchant. You dont get to keep the stolen money. Sorry.
Been using it since its inception and have yet to have any problems. On the other hand I have seen bounced checks, fake/stolen credit card numbers etc.
I know people have had problems with PayPal, and I'm not saying its perfect. However I've yet to see a better option.
What do you think would have happened if it had been purchased with a stolen credit card, check book, etc? Same thing. PayPal is not acting any different then any other group in that position, in fact the have a legal responsibility to do what they do. Ownership of stolen funds or goods does not change when they change hands for a second time. Pawn shops get burned in this manor a lot.
From a sellers perspective I can see the desire to take other forms of payment, but as a buyer there is massive appeal for the use of PayPal. With how its integrated into eBay it makes conflict resolution much simpler and gives you a means of tracking and proving receipt of funds.
The only thing I would want to see added to the service is an escrow option. But the idea of sending a wire transfer, check or money order to some unknown entity on the internet sounds like a bad idea.
As drive sizes have been going up, overall the warranty periods have been going down. With few exceptions (Seagate does three years) drives have a one year expected life time.
Here's the problem however. The small developer (guy in his living room writing cool software) cant offer services. What I keep seeing with open source is guy in living room makes cool software, big company takes it and sells services. Not really a "bad" thing, but not that good for the people making the cool stuff in the first place.
Other models such as Adobe Flex do work well with open source however. But I would prefer to find a licensing model that doesn't require the initial creator giving up all future rights to their work. Even geeks need to make a living.
I know its not a popular subject around here, but putting Linux on a notebook costs money as well. There has to be someone to call when it doesn't work.
but they should be allowed one solid punch to each of the RIAA lawyers. Above the belt if its a some what reasonable case, or bellow if its one of the "computer illiterate grandma" types.
In addition, their punch should be able to be done by a third party proxy to make sure it hurts. And thus a new service industry could be born.
"You're not competing against film majors for fellowships, scholarships, graduate programs and jobs."
Um, yes you are. At least in the software industry. Most of the higher ups at places like Autodesk, Microsoft etc are not computer majors but liberal arts or science. Most of the jobs I've gone after want a degree, but they don't care what its in because they know that what's taught in schools is often not relevant to the work.
OK.... so how big (in your opinion) does a company have to be before they should be forced to give away their research and Ip to competing companies?
Not saying I agree with the situation, but the problem is not Verizon enforcing their patents but the patent process itself.
Judges do not have unchecked power. They cant jsut issue orders and have them obeyed. Everything they say SHOULD be challanged.
If the issues are real, when has it happened?
Last I cheked, CD readers where still around. That's the first real main stream didgital format and it has not yet reached the point where we have to move data off of it for fear of it being unreadable.
I've never been impressed with the "they did it too!" defense. All this realy means is that other peole can in turn sue Viacom under the same terms that they're suing Google.
Two words that make me not ever want to buy another Creative product....
Windows Drivers
Not sure why you would want to subject Linux to those resource hungry, crash causing, never working drivers. But what ever helps you make it through the day I guess.
Use to be that a Sound Blaster was a simple audio card that just worked. Then they started adding firewire and other crap that I dont need to it and the resources just started going away. If I need MIDI or digital audio I'll buy a pro level card. I just want to play the frikin game.
Thats it... I'm gona make my OWN internet. With blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget about the blackjack and the internet.
Queue the banjo music.
There are a lot of us, myself included, that are irreversably intermeshed with the microsoft file formats. I'd rather have a published standard then not.
For the less nerdy (go find your own message board), C99 is the most recent ISO standard for the C programming language. The numbers refer to the year it was introduced. C99 is an update of C89 and C78. Logic would tell us that we should be at C07 or there about. But such is the way of standards.
There are all sorts of ISO standards that people refuse to use in their current form. Not seeing this one as that big of a deal however. I'd rather have a published standard for microsoft interoperation via XML file formats then the old .doc & .xsl files.
Oh yes, "Groklaw SMASH!"
Not realy, the advantage of solid state VS magnetic media is in the seak time not the transfer rate.