With those nightvision goggles they handed out, there's going to be a lot more "Innocence in Theaters". Poor kids, now where are preteens going to get their first make out session?
Well, it's not REALLY a pyramid scheme, or a scam. They are very upfront about the whole thing. You agree to get spam^Wdirect marketing, you agree to get some friends to agree to get direct marketing, and they give you an ipod. While the method of propogation is the same, and it does have the same bounding limits, as long as they send the ipod it's not a scam.
A pyramid scheme uses money from the bottom run to pay the (bottom-1) rung. In this marketing gimick, the money doesn't come from below, it comes from outside. It can't really collapse as long as the money they make from the spam is greater than the cost of an ipod for each person. In their case, as long as each person is profitable then it's not a pyramid scheme, it's an business that engages in voluntary direct marketing with an exponentially growing client base that most likely doesn't realize what they are signing up for (and kiss any protections you may have had on the Do-No-Call list goodbye).
I'm not usually one to pounce on the "Linux Elite" style posts, but this one I have to.
And if you know it's called X and you want to run it..
What if you don't know it's called X? My wife uses my linux computer just fine when she isn't using her Windows laptop. Why? Because to her, a GUI is a GUI. She DOESN'T know it's called X, and at her level of concern, she doesn't have to. She figured out how to get the menu to pop up by right clicking and she's fine with that. As far as she's concerned, her computer is Windows, and my computer is Linux.
I'm seriously hoping your sig is true for this one, and I just need some coffee to get my sense of humor up to speed.
That's kinda my point though, as a point of reference it doesn't do much good because you didn't say how long you used them. Many users don't keep their hardware long enough to experience failure, even if they abuse the heck out of them because they upgrade or change machines too soon. Even office machines get swapped around and parts replaced.
More like a DA(udio)R as in the following sentence: Apple and the RIAA wouldn't DAR to let this project stand as is, with the name and stated goal of perfect copies of broadcasted music.
I don't really know why this is bothering me so much
I'll tell you exactly why. Let me paint a picture for you. Your significant other comes into the room behind you and says, theluckyleper, it's my mother's birthday next week. Let's order her something from Amazon.com. So you pull up the page, and based on your search history, it says:
Welcome theluckyleper, (If you aren't theluckyleper, click here)
Theluckyleper, based on your searches and purchasing history, we recommend the following for you:
Sadly, in this country you're better off with the guy dead. We need real tort reform here. It's a basic human rights problem though, you either agree someone has the right to defend their home against unknown harm or you don't. There's very little arguing can do one way or the other.
The real problem with tasers and the like is they malfunction far more than guns and require you to be a better shot than guns. Even certain types of clothing can interfere with their operation.
Again, your situation is not what they are talking about here. What they are talking about here is more like you bringing a blank dvd to Blockbuster and having them burn you a copy of the shows you missed, then requiring you destroy the dvd after a certain time frame.
Enforcability of click through licenses is always a mirky area until they really get tested in court, but the point is that the information is available to you before the point of purchase, and you very likely agreed to the terms in advance, when you first received your tv service.
It's for TV on demand. If you're going out of town, don't order it until you get back. It's not going to stop you from tivo'ing the entire season of 6 Feet Under during the year, it'll just stop you from order a high def ppv copy of an episode you missed if you are dumb enough to order it, then never watch it.
There is always some words to the effect you are agreeing to something that will either be sent to you on request or available in some way when you use Pay per view. Whether or not you chose to read it, or whether or not it's entirely enforceable is someone else's call. When they bill you, you are paying for a service, and that service has an agreement associated with it, somewhere.
It does it if pushes load off the backbones into subnets. RoadRunner or Comcast or AoL mirroring/caching the files will keep the backbones open for your request to slashdot to go through more quickly.
Only just recently I managed to completely hose my Mandrake installation to the point where even the failsafe wouldn't boot while trying to follow a guide to update the kernel.
I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I'm definitely the guy my friends come to for problem solving. I'm pretty good with this stuff, I understand large chunks of it and configure most stuff of it from the command line.
Here's the real kicker, I'm a computer programmer. I've got years of experience in C. I understand a good deal about Makefiles, dependencies, and OS concepts. I still managed to hose myself to the point I couldn't understand why.
Anyone who has seen me on lists knows I can do some dumb things, but my point is that they are usually dumb things that SOMETHING should have pointed out.
I've been convinced for a while that some distributions, Mandrake in particular, ARE ready for the new user. They are also good for expert users. Linux is NOT ready for the intermediate user. I often have plenty of rope to hang myself, and plenty of ledges to fall off.
Actually, pushing some of that load off with a P2P solution like bittorrent, especially if ISPs correctly got into the act and cached copies of distrobutions and service packs, could really HELP your bandwidth by spreading it out on high drain times.
Not sure where you got that from, but all the two colleges I attended, the schools my siblings attended, the schools my friends attended are all different. The RA does indeed have keys to all the doors at MANY schools, I would have thought all.
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Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence in Theaters
With those nightvision goggles they handed out, there's going to be a lot more "Innocence in Theaters". Poor kids, now where are preteens going to get their first make out session?
Well, it's not REALLY a pyramid scheme, or a scam. They are very upfront about the whole thing. You agree to get spam^Wdirect marketing, you agree to get some friends to agree to get direct marketing, and they give you an ipod. While the method of propogation is the same, and it does have the same bounding limits, as long as they send the ipod it's not a scam.
A pyramid scheme uses money from the bottom run to pay the (bottom-1) rung. In this marketing gimick, the money doesn't come from below, it comes from outside. It can't really collapse as long as the money they make from the spam is greater than the cost of an ipod for each person. In their case, as long as each person is profitable then it's not a pyramid scheme, it's an business that engages in voluntary direct marketing with an exponentially growing client base that most likely doesn't realize what they are signing up for (and kiss any protections you may have had on the Do-No-Call list goodbye).
Sorry, but I had to get that off my chest.
I'm not usually one to pounce on the "Linux Elite" style posts, but this one I have to.
And if you know it's called X and you want to run it..
What if you don't know it's called X? My wife uses my linux computer just fine when she isn't using her Windows laptop. Why? Because to her, a GUI is a GUI. She DOESN'T know it's called X, and at her level of concern, she doesn't have to. She figured out how to get the menu to pop up by right clicking and she's fine with that. As far as she's concerned, her computer is Windows, and my computer is Linux.
I'm seriously hoping your sig is true for this one, and I just need some coffee to get my sense of humor up to speed.
That's kinda my point though, as a point of reference it doesn't do much good because you didn't say how long you used them. Many users don't keep their hardware long enough to experience failure, even if they abuse the heck out of them because they upgrade or change machines too soon. Even office machines get swapped around and parts replaced.
You still have a perfectly functioning computer from the 1980's that has NEVER had ANY parts replaced?
including Sun, over OpenOffice.org. I wonder what Microsoft had in mind?"
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say, perhaps, suing?
More like a DA(udio)R as in the following sentence: Apple and the RIAA wouldn't DAR to let this project stand as is, with the name and stated goal of perfect copies of broadcasted music.
I'll tell you exactly why. Let me paint a picture for you. Your significant other comes into the room behind you and says, theluckyleper, it's my mother's birthday next week. Let's order her something from Amazon.com. So you pull up the page, and based on your search history, it says:
Welcome theluckyleper, (If you aren't theluckyleper, click here)
Theluckyleper, based on your searches and purchasing history, we recommend the following for you:
I'm not sure that throwing the whole PLANE toward the ground counts as safer.
Sadly, in this country you're better off with the guy dead. We need real tort reform here. It's a basic human rights problem though, you either agree someone has the right to defend their home against unknown harm or you don't. There's very little arguing can do one way or the other.
The real problem with tasers and the like is they malfunction far more than guns and require you to be a better shot than guns. Even certain types of clothing can interfere with their operation.
or your wifes lover?
If he's not wearing pants, shoot twice.
Just another example of The Man keeping him or her down.
You mean like Knoppmyth?
Again, your situation is not what they are talking about here. What they are talking about here is more like you bringing a blank dvd to Blockbuster and having them burn you a copy of the shows you missed, then requiring you destroy the dvd after a certain time frame.
Enforcability of click through licenses is always a mirky area until they really get tested in court, but the point is that the information is available to you before the point of purchase, and you very likely agreed to the terms in advance, when you first received your tv service.
Should be able to with two IR transmitters and a properly configured lirc.
It's for TV on demand. If you're going out of town, don't order it until you get back. It's not going to stop you from tivo'ing the entire season of 6 Feet Under during the year, it'll just stop you from order a high def ppv copy of an episode you missed if you are dumb enough to order it, then never watch it.
There is always some words to the effect you are agreeing to something that will either be sent to you on request or available in some way when you use Pay per view. Whether or not you chose to read it, or whether or not it's entirely enforceable is someone else's call. When they bill you, you are paying for a service, and that service has an agreement associated with it, somewhere.
Well, politics does fit with news for nerds, and stuff that matters.
It does it if pushes load off the backbones into subnets. RoadRunner or Comcast or AoL mirroring/caching the files will keep the backbones open for your request to slashdot to go through more quickly.
Only just recently I managed to completely hose my Mandrake installation to the point where even the failsafe wouldn't boot while trying to follow a guide to update the kernel. I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I'm definitely the guy my friends come to for problem solving. I'm pretty good with this stuff, I understand large chunks of it and configure most stuff of it from the command line. Here's the real kicker, I'm a computer programmer. I've got years of experience in C. I understand a good deal about Makefiles, dependencies, and OS concepts. I still managed to hose myself to the point I couldn't understand why. Anyone who has seen me on lists knows I can do some dumb things, but my point is that they are usually dumb things that SOMETHING should have pointed out. I've been convinced for a while that some distributions, Mandrake in particular, ARE ready for the new user. They are also good for expert users. Linux is NOT ready for the intermediate user. I often have plenty of rope to hang myself, and plenty of ledges to fall off.
Actually, pushing some of that load off with a P2P solution like bittorrent, especially if ISPs correctly got into the act and cached copies of distrobutions and service packs, could really HELP your bandwidth by spreading it out on high drain times.
I for one welcome our new Oomlaut-mail Overlords.
ZoneAlarm, the choice of many.
Not sure where you got that from, but all the two colleges I attended, the schools my siblings attended, the schools my friends attended are all different. The RA does indeed have keys to all the doors at MANY schools, I would have thought all.