"Ruckus is “tethered” so students can still download music and movies without officially owning, buying or burning downloads, said Marone"
Wow on demand cable without the abialty to record the shows. Thank you MPAA/RIAA for this generous outporing of stupid liscense fee media. Yes, these are the best times of our lives//Sarcasm
I think the parent post addressed profitability more than viability. If no business would let customers use the restroom. I'm sure the pay toilet business would grow. But I don't hear anyone complaining that toilet (or bidet for our European friends) makers are making money while bathroom providers have been driven out of business.
Require something that cant be falsified like retinal scanners eliminate security concerns. To eliminate privacy concerns, by law (or new amendment), all personal data should only be held until the results have been counted then irrecoverably destroyed.
Im sure there is a flaw that I am over looking (aside from the slippery slope argument), what is it?
As a long time customer of both American Greetings and Penny-Arcade.com I am deeply saddened by the recent developments between your company and penny-arcade.com. After examining the situation as presented before me. I have come the the conclusion that American Greetings is wholly in the wrong. Because of this and because of while there are many supplementary goods for products bearing the American Greetings logo there are few for Penny Arcade.com and none for free speech, I have decided to stop consuming your products until such time that a noticeable change is made in the way that American Greetings responds to similar incidents.
While I understand that the number of individuals willing to take a stand on this issue will be small, I firmly believe that the number of people who would have had their opinion of American Greetings swain by an electronic comic-strip would be far less had American Greetings chosen a different course of action on this matter.
As a long time customer of both American Greetings and Penny-Arcade.com I am deeply saddened by the recent developments between your company and penny-arcade.com. After examining the situation as presented before me. I have come the the conclusion that American Greetings is wholly in the wrong. Because of this and because of while there are many supplementary goods for products bearing the American Greetings logo there are few for Penny Arcade.com and none for free speech, I have decided to stop consuming your products until such time that a noticeable change is made in the way that American Greetings responds to similar incidents.
While I understand that the number of individuals willing to take a stand on this issue will be small, I firmly believe that the number of people who would have had their opinion of American Greetings swain by an electronic comic-strip would be far less had American Greetings chosen a different course of action on this matter.
I wonder what the odds are that within 18 months, the company that makes this thing will come out with a gps collar add on that can tell you your childs exact location. 18 months after that...video camera built into the collar.
My point is that in the hands of good parents, things like this are good. In the hands of bad parents it will produce Akward 18 year old off to college who is drunk with freedom but has no idea how to use it responsibly and be forced to spend the first years of his adult life mourning his lost childhood and learning all of the thing he should have learned back then.
IMHO let the tenth graders learn the value of hard work the hard way. Two good years at a community college can erase 4 years of High School mistakes.
I remember seeing something like this about 4 years ago that used your avreage vcr as a backup medium. Apparently one VHS tape could hold around 1 gig of data, but it took about two hours to get it on there.
How can you be Nostalgic about something that happend a little while ago.
That being said Im all for it provided the quality dosent suffer and they dont try to charge $30 dollars a disc for "express mastering" or some other nonsense. my $.02
Would it be legal to set up your own mirror and offer the free downloads of the OS?? If the $20 is actually just for the cost of downloading (ha) this should be possible.
So will we have to refer to him as the iPresident who resides at the iWhitehouse in iWashington iDC who will hold i cabnet meetings regarding the pending inuclear strike aganst iiraq.
I think the problem is that us Geeks have not done a good job of alerting the public at large. Even if we boycott every geek-centric film. The masses will still flock to the latest Hugh Grant / Julia Roberts film and still buy the latest generic pop (poop) album. I think the key is educating the consumer whores. If they stop consuming everything shoveled in front of them and take a stand based on ethics and value (not marketing), we may just be able to get some changes made
I agree with what your saying, but I think that tat you have two holes in your theory.
1)The "Black Friday" newspapers come out on Wednesday giving you 24+ hours to plan your shopping day. I cant imagine anyone spending more than 1hr to look over the ads ad determine what they want most. 2)It's been my experience (both as a consumer and retail employee) that you generally will not have the option of visiting more than one store and still get all of the really hot items. (CIP - Bestbuy had their shelves cleared of the really good deals ( Hard drive and I think a video card?) less than two minutes after they opened last year.
I work at a chain with a fairly big black Friday sale, and we have pulled the items that we know all the ad jumpers are going to be after. So they sit in storage in the back awaiting 11-29. So why does having the add in advance matter if the stores in question have pulled all traces of the item? (BTW - Refusing to sell an item to a given person is illegal. Not selling an item for which there is no visible display model, no visible boxed product and no visible signage is very legal.)
300 is MSRP and what XP PRO FULL is sold for at all large brick and mortar chains. your prices are for the OEM editions whitch should only be sold with hardware or to computer shops. (though tha clauses are often ignored/)
The FBI does have the legal authority
to monitor ALL activity at public libraries as
well as place a gag order on the staff of said
libraries. ( I believe it was the
patriot act that made it legal, not sure though.) if you don't
believe me check these links.
So when the FBI installs a packet sniffer on your network, will you be allowed to tell anyone or will the same rules that apply to brick and mortar libraries apply to you.
What happened to "Baby Blues" and "Mission Hill". Both shows are still listed on the website, bu they haven t aired in weeks. Are they canned or just in hiatus.
If your looking for something on the windows side Bloodshed.net puts out a great free (free as in GNU OSS)IDE that can use GCC as the compiler. The newest version (5.0) is still in beta but I have used it for all of my projects this semester and it hasn't crashed once (All console apps but way more complicated than "hello world" and it hasn't let me down once).
Slashdot Mirror
consider your options
"Ruckus is “tethered” so students can still download music and movies without officially owning, buying or burning downloads, said Marone"
/Sarcasm
Wow on demand cable without the abialty to record the shows. Thank you MPAA/RIAA for this generous outporing of stupid liscense fee media. Yes, these are the best times of our lives/
I think the parent post addressed profitability more than viability. If no business would let customers use the restroom. I'm sure the pay toilet business would grow. But I don't hear anyone complaining that toilet (or bidet for our European friends) makers are making money while bathroom providers have been driven out of business.
N'SYNC
Require something that cant be falsified like retinal scanners eliminate security concerns. To eliminate privacy concerns, by law (or new amendment), all personal data should only be held until the results have been counted then irrecoverably destroyed.
Im sure there is a flaw that I am over looking (aside from the slippery slope argument), what is it?
They actually removed the link. All this non-violent protest stuff may be good for something after all
= McDonalds Lawsuit
As a long time customer of both American Greetings and Penny-Arcade.com I am deeply saddened by the recent developments between your company and penny-arcade.com. After examining the situation as presented before me. I have come the the conclusion that American Greetings is wholly in the wrong. Because of this and because of while there are many supplementary goods for products bearing the American Greetings logo there are few for Penny Arcade.com and none for free speech, I have decided to stop consuming your products until such time that a noticeable change is made in the way that American Greetings responds to similar incidents.
While I understand that the number of individuals willing to take a stand on this issue will be small, I firmly believe that the number of people who would have had their opinion of American Greetings swain by an electronic comic-strip would be far less had American Greetings chosen a different course of action on this matter.
-Thank You
As a long time customer of both American Greetings and Penny-Arcade.com I am deeply saddened by the recent developments between your company and penny-arcade.com. After examining the situation as presented before me. I have come the the conclusion that American Greetings is wholly in the wrong. Because of this and because of while there are many supplementary goods for products bearing the American Greetings logo there are few for Penny Arcade.com and none for free speech, I have decided to stop consuming your products until such time that a noticeable change is made in the way that American Greetings responds to similar incidents.
While I understand that the number of individuals willing to take a stand on this issue will be small, I firmly believe that the number of people who would have had their opinion of American Greetings swain by an electronic comic-strip would be far less had American Greetings chosen a different course of action on this matter.
I wonder what the odds are that within 18 months, the company that makes this thing will come out with a gps collar add on that can tell you your childs exact location. 18 months after that...video camera built into the collar.
My point is that in the hands of good parents, things like this are good. In the hands of bad parents it will produce Akward 18 year old off to college who is drunk with freedom but has no idea how to use it responsibly and be forced to spend the first years of his adult life mourning his lost childhood and learning all of the thing he should have learned back then.
IMHO let the tenth graders learn the value of hard work the hard way. Two good years at a community college can erase 4 years of High School mistakes.
I remember seeing something like this about 4 years ago that used your avreage vcr as a backup medium. Apparently one VHS tape could hold around 1 gig of data, but it took about two hours to get it on there.
Segway Human Interactive Transporter
How can you be Nostalgic about something that happend a little while ago.
That being said Im all for it provided the quality dosent suffer and they dont try to charge $30 dollars a disc for "express mastering" or some other nonsense. my $.02
Would it be legal to set up your own mirror and offer the free downloads of the OS?? If the $20 is actually just for the cost of downloading (ha) this should be possible.
So will we have to refer to him as the iPresident who resides at the iWhitehouse in iWashington iDC who will hold i cabnet meetings regarding the pending inuclear strike aganst iiraq.
(yes it's lame - isorry)
I think the problem is that us Geeks have not done a good job of alerting the public at large. Even if we boycott every geek-centric film. The masses will still flock to the latest Hugh Grant / Julia Roberts film and still buy the latest generic pop (poop) album. I think the key is educating the consumer whores. If they stop consuming everything shoveled in front of them and take a stand based on ethics and value (not marketing), we may just be able to get some changes made
I agree with what your saying, but I think that tat you have two holes in your theory.
1)The "Black Friday" newspapers come out on Wednesday giving you 24+ hours to plan your shopping day. I cant imagine anyone spending more than 1hr to look over the ads ad determine what they want most.
2)It's been my experience (both as a consumer and retail employee) that you generally will not have the option of visiting more than one store and still get all of the really hot items. (CIP - Bestbuy had their shelves cleared of the really good deals ( Hard drive and I think a video card?) less than two minutes after they opened last year.
I work at a chain with a fairly big black Friday sale, and we have pulled the items that we know all the ad jumpers are going to be after. So they sit in storage in the back awaiting 11-29. So why does having the add in advance matter if the stores in question have pulled all traces of the item? (BTW - Refusing to sell an item to a given person is illegal. Not selling an item for which there is no visible display model, no visible boxed product and no visible signage is very legal.)
300 is MSRP and what XP PRO FULL is sold for at all large brick and mortar chains. your prices are for the OEM editions whitch should only be sold with hardware or to computer shops. (though tha clauses are often ignored/)
The FBI does have the legal authority to monitor ALL activity at public libraries as well as place a gag order on the staff of said libraries. ( I believe it was the patriot act that made it legal, not sure though.) if you don't believe me check these links.
http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2002/0602.html the 6-26 show
http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2002/1102.html the 11-6 show
or right here of farking slashdot
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/11/05/177237.shtml? tid=158
So when the FBI installs a packet sniffer on your network, will you be allowed to tell anyone or will the same rules that apply to brick and mortar libraries apply to you.
What happened to "Baby Blues" and "Mission Hill". Both shows are still listed on the website, bu they haven t aired in weeks. Are they canned or just in hiatus.
Sony Computer Entertainment America
PO Box 5888
San Mateo, CA 94402-0888
800-345-7669 (800-345-SONY)
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Nintendo of America Inc.
PO Box 957
Redmond, WA 98052
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Redmond WA 98052
Phone: (425) 882-8080
Fax: (425) 936-7329
One Microsoft Way
Redmond WA 98052
Phone: (425) 882-8080
Fax: (425) 936-7329
If enough of us collectively speak maybe someone at that place will actually listen.
If your looking for something on the windows side Bloodshed.net puts out a great free (free as in GNU OSS)IDE that can use GCC as the compiler. The newest version (5.0) is still in beta but I have used it for all of my projects this semester and it hasn't crashed once (All console apps but way more complicated than "hello world" and it hasn't let me down once).
http://www.bloodshed.net