I read the articles here, but the 28.8 kbps cap on your broadband connection doesn't make any sense to me. If you're limiting your customers' total bandwidth to that of a slow dial-up modem, wouldn't you lose customers.
If it's more economical to use a 56k dial-up modem than a crippled broadband connection, then hook me up to the phone line, because ironically, it will actually be cheaper and faster.
So if the RIAA forces these high royalties on internet radio stations, then there'll be less stations to listen to, less variety, so less people will be satisfied with the selection. Soooooo, that would just encourage more people to just download MP3s so they can listen to what they want...
The RIAA also wanted to make the distribution of MP3 impossible by firing through the SSSCA to implement technology limitations that keep you from copying ANY music, also they wanted to plunge their dirty hands into the making of the Homeland Security bill. Their contribution to the bill was to make music to be considered "an act of terrorism" [I had a link to a news article but now I can't find it].
So any way you look at it, if (when?) the RIAA has their way, you'll have no choice except to be stuck with them.
I'm glad I subscribe with call ID, because this enables me to screen my calls by the number (or lack of number since most telemarketing firms block their ID). If a suspected telemarketer phones, I let my answering machine pick up, because what I figure is that if the call really is important, the person would leave a message.
If the caller happens to be important and leaves a message, that's when I pick upt the phone, which then stops the answering machine as soon as it detects an extension being used.
At least that's the way I currently deal with telemarketers, it may not be the ideal solution, but at least I don't have to deal with a demented game of 20 questions by some part-time slacker who can't even pronounce my name trying to sell me on another stupid home equity loan -- and I don't even own my place.
Recently I've seen a 'new' product lately that claims to "zap" telemarketers, this is ironically being advertised on TV and in magazines -- probably by the same people who do the telemarketing. You can usually tell how well a device works by seeing how many people are trying to resell these things at second-hand stores and other used sellers. I have already seen a few dozen or so of these things in such places, so my guess is: it doesn't work.
One thing that SCSI is a great performer in is when it's implemented in a network or large web server, where data is being read and/or written to multiple drives at the same time.
Under normal workstation or home PC use, IDE would be a cost effective method of connecting drives. You can buy a 100GB or so hard drive from Maxtor or WD for only a couple hundred dollars, while SCSI can cost more than double of what you can get IDE for. In addition, you must buy a SCSI controller to connect your drives to, this controller usually fits into one of your PCI expansion slots and can cost almost as much as a SCSI harddrive.
"(b) Exception -- Subsection (a) does not apply to the offer for sale or provision of, or other trafficking in, any previously-owned interactive digital device, if such device was legally manufactured or imported, and sold, prior to the effective date of regulations adopted under section 104 and not subsequently modified in violation of subsection (a) or 103(a). "
How soon do you suppose it will be until this subsection of the bill is amended so it will include the devices identified under this part, under the provisions of subsection A.
I tried to write as best as I could in "legalese".
...Then it's time that I somehow shell out more money to get my hands on some commercial/industrial electronic equipment in order to avoid all this B.S., unless of course they make posession of non-consumer goods against the law somehow.
I'm not a U.S. citizen so there's not much more that I can do other than piss & moan about it.
But for the U.S. citizens out there I urge you to write a letter to your congressman/woman (or other elected representatives) to to express you opposition to this bill.
Sure it would look cool and stuff, but the problem is if you open up a hard drive you expose it to possible foreign objects, which can then comtaminate the inside of the drive, and cause it to fail, and 5 Gigs of MP3s, 3 gigs of movie rips, 2 gigs of photos, and 30 usused gigs are lost just like that.
I suggest that if you really want to mod a HD, then do it to a drive with no critical data on it, and one where the warranty is no longer valid.
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If it's more economical to use a 56k dial-up modem than a crippled broadband connection, then hook me up to the phone line, because ironically, it will actually be cheaper and faster.
The RIAA also wanted to make the distribution of MP3 impossible by firing through the SSSCA to implement technology limitations that keep you from copying ANY music, also they wanted to plunge their dirty hands into the making of the Homeland Security bill. Their contribution to the bill was to make music to be considered "an act of terrorism" [I had a link to a news article but now I can't find it].
So any way you look at it, if (when?) the RIAA has their way, you'll have no choice except to be stuck with them.
Internet Radio will prevail, Internet radio forever. I still stand the chance of starting up my very own netradio station/site.
If the caller happens to be important and leaves a message, that's when I pick upt the phone, which then stops the answering machine as soon as it detects an extension being used.
At least that's the way I currently deal with telemarketers, it may not be the ideal solution, but at least I don't have to deal with a demented game of 20 questions by some part-time slacker who can't even pronounce my name trying to sell me on another stupid home equity loan -- and I don't even own my place.
Recently I've seen a 'new' product lately that claims to "zap" telemarketers, this is ironically being advertised on TV and in magazines -- probably by the same people who do the telemarketing. You can usually tell how well a device works by seeing how many people are trying to resell these things at second-hand stores and other used sellers. I have already seen a few dozen or so of these things in such places, so my guess is: it doesn't work.
Under normal workstation or home PC use, IDE would be a cost effective method of connecting drives. You can buy a 100GB or so hard drive from Maxtor or WD for only a couple hundred dollars, while SCSI can cost more than double of what you can get IDE for. In addition, you must buy a SCSI controller to connect your drives to, this controller usually fits into one of your PCI expansion slots and can cost almost as much as a SCSI harddrive.
That being said, I still have a pile of (and still have problems with) .INI files located in the Windows directory of my Windows 98 partition.
How soon do you suppose it will be until this subsection of the bill is amended so it will include the devices identified under this part, under the provisions of subsection A.
I tried to write as best as I could in "legalese".
I'm not a U.S. citizen so there's not much more that I can do other than piss & moan about it.
But for the U.S. citizens out there I urge you to write a letter to your congressman/woman (or other elected representatives) to to express you opposition to this bill.
The EULA.
Also you don't have to pay for viruses, and viruses are usually more stable and less bloated.
And not only do viruses not have anti-copy measures, the sole objective of a virus is to copy itself and spread.
I suggest that if you really want to mod a HD, then do it to a drive with no critical data on it, and one where the warranty is no longer valid.