Re:Micropayments maybe? - Re:Charging for content.
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The problem is that you can't just put 0.01 on your credit card bill. The guy charging you is paying a fee.. there is a reason that bars have a ten dollar minimum on their credit card tabs. Any more, and they don't make much of a profit if any.
Re:Charging for content sealed Salon's fate
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Yes, land is cheaper in Montana. A big nasty fire might come and burn your house down because the government decided that downed timber was good for the bunnies. Look at the bunny! No, you already did. You need to live in nice safe city, with lots of people around so that you feel safe... that should work. Travel light and unarmed, and your slashdot karma and your good will toward man will keep you safe. Plus, you can run faster if you don't have a gun banging on your ribs... see, you even get a bonus.
Yeah, and my car doesn't have any seatbelts. It didn't come with any, and that's one modification I haven't made yet. I will add some at some point; but I have to gut it to put the rollcage in. Should I be ticketed for driving an antique? Not in my opinion. And yes, I've had a serious accident in that car... got hid head by a senile old lady, combined closing speed of about 80 mph. She did knock me out of the way, and did force me to rebuild the damn car from scratch, but she found out the hard way that airbags and crush zones are meant to protect modern cars and their occupants from each other. I walked away, she left in an ambulance. Then again, a car with a blower coming through the hood is probably considered evil in CA anyway. Hey wait, is that the state that MANDATED adding a carcinogen to gas? And fucked up it's ground water in the process? Hmm...
The whole idea of the government preventing bad things that might happen to you personally is new and fairly naive. Ok, someone breaks into your house, he's armed, you don't believe in violence so you aren't, and he rapes your wife. The police didn't prevent it. Can you sue your local police department? NO. Should you be able to? NO. The police enforce the law and investigate crimes that have already happened. Will the FBI be any good at preventing things? I doubt it; it's a radical shift in focus for them. YOU are responsible for your own security. It's your life; and when it comes to things that happen to you personally it's your problem.
Not without a lot of fuel they won't. And probably not with this rocket. Most of a rocket's weight is in it's fuel, and that weight is lost as the fuel burns. The payload is a constant weight... and sats are heavy.
Sorry, liquid fueled rockets that use a variant on a turbo to use the thrust to pressurize the fuel have been common knowledge in the industry for a while. I'm guessing that they went with solid fuel to save money, use what they had, or really do something different.
Yeah, it's about 3 year old news called BO2K, subseven, yadda yadda yadda. If you don't run antivirus you might have one of these. Even if you do run antivirus but you're using windows, you really wouldn't know unless you found ports open for no reason. Standard.exe compression programs make these little bastards undetectable to antivirus programs (does that count as a varient?) although they have to be completely configured before they're wrapped. Oh yeah, hooking into your monitor speaker is a standard feature these days as well. Saves file as a.wav, as far as I know common trojans don't stream it yet... a hacker would have to download the take... but it's been a few months since I checked. If you didn't know this, and you are running windows, and maybe just possibly your antivirus software is out of date, and you honestly don't know what ports are open, and why, then I really hope you're not running a server. And if you are, please at least try to keep it from DOSing me... if that fails, unplug the bitch and GO BACK TO CLASS! (Or, just make it a habit to check bugtraq every day or two and fix whatever the nice people there tell you to). Peace.
I prefer a.45 auto. It's smaller, easier to conceal, and I don't have to get within six feet to take your head off. Of course, I could get a replica that would look the same and make the same noise, but that would be missing the point.
You mean the same bunch that put SYRIA on the security council? Yeah, the UN has a great record. Please explain to me why they should have ANY say in this? It can't be integrity, intelligence, or common sense...
Zimbabwe does not HAVE a fucking government. Not by my standards, and probably not by yours. This is really a non-issue. They have a fragile collection of tribal groups that band together to kill each other when the need arises, and almost half of them have aids anyway. No one is going to take a crew like that seriously. The brits and the ex pats should cut their losses, run like hell, and let the place rot like the rest of the continent.
Fuck that. Just because Zimbabwe is a country doesn't mean that any other country (or me, for that matter) has to respect them. There is a reason that their economy is in the toilet. There is a reason that they have a 40% aids rate. There is a reason that they run around arresting journalists that they don't like. The reason is that they are ruled by a particularly shitty dictatorship. I can say that, you can say that, and so can our governments. If they want respect, they have to earn it. So far, they haven't.
Actually, I don't think that they can use the term "cd" on the covers of these crippled disks. Yes, they LOOK like a cd, but they don't meet the standard. Therefore, even the record companies cannot legally claim that these are cds. You won't see "cd", any logo related to it, or the words "compact disk" on any of these releases unless their lawyers really stepped in it. Maybe they should just call them "non standard shiny round things that might fuck up your mac", if they want to make sure that the customer knows what they're shelling out money for.
Yeah, but South Africa is dying. The place is really screwed up. Assuming that anyone in charge at this point is competent to make technical decisions would be a risk. And before you mod me down as a troll, how many of you know someone who lives there now? Say, someone white in Jburg? Looked at the crime statistics? The government and the country are a train wreck; the admin did the right thing.
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Unless you happen to be jewish and can post a few links verifying your $100 million trust cutoff, kindly shut up. Where exactly did you get that? And no, I'm not jewish, but this level of ignorance is maddening. What, if I were jewish I could make millions selling dog food online? Oh, wait, someone tried that one already... dammit, if only I could have been born Israeli I'd bet set.
Ok, but we should agree to a higher price? Why? In latin america any extra money will only go to the guys on the take... it won't be "redistributed". If it is, I rather doubt that it would be in a manner that you would approve of. Face it, societies are social constructs and some work better than others... they are not all created equal.
Ok, I have to disagree with a few things here. First, if people thing that they have a "lack of dignity", that doesn't make it real. What makes that real for all practical intents and purposes is that the politicians tell them that they are being treated badly. Unfortunatly, most people don't really analyze the news. Yes, the FEELING is real, but does it match reality? In my opinion, the people allow should ideally ALLOW a government to exist as long as it is providing them with mutually agreed on benefits. However, if the government controls the media, those agreements can become murky. FEELINGS don't mean a damn thing in this context, only the bottom line and people's willingness to either change the systom or knuckle under.
Latin America should be richer, but they're not because they're corrupt, so we (I) owe them something? And yes, I've lived in central america. I don't even know where to start with this. "I suck and can't figure out why I keep sucking" is not a reason to give anyone or any government money.
No, I don't work for a corporation because I need/want security. There is no such thing in this economy. I work for a corporation because I want health insurence... And, sadly, that's about it.
Realize how much I've been missing? What, and become a manager? I go out of my way to make sure that something REALLY needs to be done when the "manager in training" classes roll around. Ok, I'm not a manager, but I get things done. Keep your parking spot.
When the company that created them no longer exists. At the moment, I'm trying to convert about 20 gigs of obsolete files to a modern format. Apparently no one knows anything about the old format, but for some reason we are paying a company for "support", and they aren't at all interested in helping me with the conversion. Yeah, I can't say that I blame them, but if I do it myself could I be violating the law (U.S.)? Being forced to reverse engineer something is bad enough, having the lawyers tell you it might be illegal or a DMCA violation or something is enough to make you want to pull your hair out. Maybe we don't have the best lawyers in the world, but unless you work for a tech company how up to speed are YOUR lawyers on this? Especially with Hollings cranking out new bills... So, in my opinion, hell yes there should be an experation date! There is no logical reason why trying to convert a 25 year old format when no one else seems to know how should present a legal issue.
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The problem is that you can't just put 0.01 on your credit card bill. The guy charging you is paying a fee.. there is a reason that bars have a ten dollar minimum on their credit card tabs. Any more, and they don't make much of a profit if any.
Yes, land is cheaper in Montana. A big nasty fire might come and burn your house down because the government decided that downed timber was good for the bunnies. Look at the bunny! No, you already did. You need to live in nice safe city, with lots of people around so that you feel safe... that should work. Travel light and unarmed, and your slashdot karma and your good will toward man will keep you safe. Plus, you can run faster if you don't have a gun banging on your ribs... see, you even get a bonus.
Yeah? Carry a gun. Exercise your freedoms, and you won't have as much to worry about.
Yeah, and my car doesn't have any seatbelts. It didn't come with any, and that's one modification I haven't made yet. I will add some at some point; but I have to gut it to put the rollcage in. Should I be ticketed for driving an antique? Not in my opinion. And yes, I've had a serious accident in that car... got hid head by a senile old lady, combined closing speed of about 80 mph. She did knock me out of the way, and did force me to rebuild the damn car from scratch, but she found out the hard way that airbags and crush zones are meant to protect modern cars and their occupants from each other. I walked away, she left in an ambulance. Then again, a car with a blower coming through the hood is probably considered evil in CA anyway. Hey wait, is that the state that MANDATED adding a carcinogen to gas? And fucked up it's ground water in the process? Hmm...
The whole idea of the government preventing bad things that might happen to you personally is new and fairly naive. Ok, someone breaks into your house, he's armed, you don't believe in violence so you aren't, and he rapes your wife. The police didn't prevent it. Can you sue your local police department? NO. Should you be able to? NO. The police enforce the law and investigate crimes that have already happened. Will the FBI be any good at preventing things? I doubt it; it's a radical shift in focus for them. YOU are responsible for your own security. It's your life; and when it comes to things that happen to you personally it's your problem.
Go fuck yourself. Troll.
Moot point. We've spent a couple of generations training the dogs to sniff for pot, not rocket fuel.
Not without a lot of fuel they won't. And probably not with this rocket. Most of a rocket's weight is in it's fuel, and that weight is lost as the fuel burns. The payload is a constant weight... and sats are heavy.
Sorry, liquid fueled rockets that use a variant on a turbo to use the thrust to pressurize the fuel have been common knowledge in the industry for a while. I'm guessing that they went with solid fuel to save money, use what they had, or really do something different.
Yeah, it's about 3 year old news called BO2K, subseven, yadda yadda yadda. If you don't run antivirus you might have one of these. Even if you do run antivirus but you're using windows, you really wouldn't know unless you found ports open for no reason. Standard .exe compression programs make these little bastards undetectable to antivirus programs (does that count as a varient?) although they have to be completely configured before they're wrapped. Oh yeah, hooking into your monitor speaker is a standard feature these days as well. Saves file as a .wav, as far as I know common trojans don't stream it yet... a hacker would have to download the take... but it's been a few months since I checked. If you didn't know this, and you are running windows, and maybe just possibly your antivirus software is out of date, and you honestly don't know what ports are open, and why, then I really hope you're not running a server. And if you are, please at least try to keep it from DOSing me... if that fails, unplug the bitch and GO BACK TO CLASS! (Or, just make it a habit to check bugtraq every day or two and fix whatever the nice people there tell you to). Peace.
I prefer a .45 auto. It's smaller, easier to conceal, and I don't have to get within six feet to take your head off. Of course, I could get a replica that would look the same and make the same noise, but that would be missing the point.
You mean the same bunch that put SYRIA on the security council? Yeah, the UN has a great record. Please explain to me why they should have ANY say in this? It can't be integrity, intelligence, or common sense...
Zimbabwe does not HAVE a fucking government. Not by my standards, and probably not by yours. This is really a non-issue. They have a fragile collection of tribal groups that band together to kill each other when the need arises, and almost half of them have aids anyway. No one is going to take a crew like that seriously. The brits and the ex pats should cut their losses, run like hell, and let the place rot like the rest of the continent.
Fuck that. Just because Zimbabwe is a country doesn't mean that any other country (or me, for that matter) has to respect them. There is a reason that their economy is in the toilet. There is a reason that they have a 40% aids rate. There is a reason that they run around arresting journalists that they don't like. The reason is that they are ruled by a particularly shitty dictatorship. I can say that, you can say that, and so can our governments. If they want respect, they have to earn it. So far, they haven't.
Actually, I don't think that they can use the term "cd" on the covers of these crippled disks. Yes, they LOOK like a cd, but they don't meet the standard. Therefore, even the record companies cannot legally claim that these are cds. You won't see "cd", any logo related to it, or the words "compact disk" on any of these releases unless their lawyers really stepped in it. Maybe they should just call them "non standard shiny round things that might fuck up your mac", if they want to make sure that the customer knows what they're shelling out money for.
Yeah, but South Africa is dying. The place is really screwed up. Assuming that anyone in charge at this point is competent to make technical decisions would be a risk. And before you mod me down as a troll, how many of you know someone who lives there now? Say, someone white in Jburg? Looked at the crime statistics? The government and the country are a train wreck; the admin did the right thing.
"Welcome to SensAble Technolgies' website. To alleviate temporary high traffic levels, we've replaced our normal home page with this text version. We apologize for any inconvenience and expect normal service to return shortly."
No more so than the fact that the first secret spy sub was named "Halibut". It wound up stuck in the mud off of Russia trying to tap a cable.
Unless you happen to be jewish and can post a few links verifying your $100 million trust cutoff, kindly shut up. Where exactly did you get that? And no, I'm not jewish, but this level of ignorance is maddening. What, if I were jewish I could make millions selling dog food online? Oh, wait, someone tried that one already... dammit, if only I could have been born Israeli I'd bet set.
Ok, but we should agree to a higher price? Why? In latin america any extra money will only go to the guys on the take... it won't be "redistributed". If it is, I rather doubt that it would be in a manner that you would approve of. Face it, societies are social constructs and some work better than others... they are not all created equal.
Ok, I have to disagree with a few things here. First, if people thing that they have a "lack of dignity", that doesn't make it real. What makes that real for all practical intents and purposes is that the politicians tell them that they are being treated badly. Unfortunatly, most people don't really analyze the news. Yes, the FEELING is real, but does it match reality? In my opinion, the people allow should ideally ALLOW a government to exist as long as it is providing them with mutually agreed on benefits. However, if the government controls the media, those agreements can become murky. FEELINGS don't mean a damn thing in this context, only the bottom line and people's willingness to either change the systom or knuckle under.
Latin America should be richer, but they're not because they're corrupt, so we (I) owe them something? And yes, I've lived in central america. I don't even know where to start with this. "I suck and can't figure out why I keep sucking" is not a reason to give anyone or any government money.
No, I don't work for a corporation because I need/want security. There is no such thing in this economy. I work for a corporation because I want health insurence... And, sadly, that's about it.
Realize how much I've been missing? What, and become a manager? I go out of my way to make sure that something REALLY needs to be done when the "manager in training" classes roll around. Ok, I'm not a manager, but I get things done. Keep your parking spot.
When the company that created them no longer exists. At the moment, I'm trying to convert about 20 gigs of obsolete files to a modern format. Apparently no one knows anything about the old format, but for some reason we are paying a company for "support", and they aren't at all interested in helping me with the conversion. Yeah, I can't say that I blame them, but if I do it myself could I be violating the law (U.S.)? Being forced to reverse engineer something is bad enough, having the lawyers tell you it might be illegal or a DMCA violation or something is enough to make you want to pull your hair out. Maybe we don't have the best lawyers in the world, but unless you work for a tech company how up to speed are YOUR lawyers on this? Especially with Hollings cranking out new bills... So, in my opinion, hell yes there should be an experation date! There is no logical reason why trying to convert a 25 year old format when no one else seems to know how should present a legal issue.