Sometimes, well, probably many times, EULA's break the law.
Well, kinda. They contain rules that if enforced, would break the law.
Software companies put anything into EULA's and they know that half the stuff in them is likely not enforcable. But you'd have to go to court and have a judge decide; a luxery that most people can't afford.
It could still be a good idea though, if you factor in the cost of the new bulb and the price is still significantly less then what it would be new.
This varies upon unit and blah blah, but that's what I would do.
You can't really rely on the word of an ebay seller, so you gotta take some precautions is all. Go look at R/C nitro engines. Every single one on ebay has "Less then one gallon" through them. Ya, right.. so you gotta factor in the price for a new piston/sleeve.
In the context of the discussion, I was able to figure out that everyone was talking about machines; digital data.
There's always the possibility where a brand new technology all together will be invented without limitations, but I don't believe it will be in our or our grandchildrens' lifetimes and we won't be using brains for storing lossless digital pictures and other media.
I do the same thing. Ohh, I tried backing up my data at various points in my life.
I've used floppies, and ZIP disks. I've used CD's and DVD's, and I have a DLT drive I can use to backup a measly 40GB uncompressed data to if I so choose. None of these options are really as good for me then just to simply keep buying new hard drives, and shuffle the data to the new drives as they are purchased.
It's not like I have THAT much data to store. Maybe.. 1TB or so. These days, a terrabyte isn't that much anymore. Every so often, I buy the one-step-down-from-biggest drive (for the price.)
In this manner, I never really have to worry about media degredation.
There is and probably will never be any such situation where it takes so long to write to a media that you cannot fill it before it dies.
The largest data stores in the world can be moved from one system to another in a short time, so I don't see this as being even something to consider a possibility.
True, however the panels that will be installed on these things will be a lot more robust. Newer panels can capture much more power then the old ones in the calculators I used in high school. Not to mention there will be a lot more of them.
I think they'll work fine. I mean, your average PDA is going to likely use more power then these things, since PDA's have these really bright TFT screens on them. The meters probably won't have a very complicated display, and the display is what ends up sucking out most of the power.
Basically you're just repeating the same post, that's been posted in just about every thread, in every story, every day.
Look, the fact of the matter is that 90% of your hardware is going to work out of the box in Linux today. I install Mandrake, Fedora, whatever. They all pick up my hardware fine.
The problem lies when you have bleeding edge hardware with no Linux support. Or if you have some $5 sound card/video card/firewire card with no documentation and no linux drivers.
It's not necessarily the developers. It's the hardware vendors. And don't tell me you've never ever had a problem getting hardware to work in Windows.
I'm not saying there's no room for improvement. In many ways I like the canned driver packages you get for Windows systems. They *usually* work and require minimal effort to install. But it's often quite easy to get hardware working in the big linux distributions too.
Most people whom are "happy with dialup" don't know the difference.
With a modem, the Internet is simply a fun to-do sometimes. With broadband, it's another world. The changes are more then simply "it's faster." It enables you to do much more, and changes the way you think about the internet.
Going out to see a movie? Pop into a movie website and check the times, order tickets too. Want to find out how something works? Browse through 10 pages in moments. These tasks are a chore on dialup, and really quick and easy on a cablemodem. I'd venture to say that most modem users just don't use the internet like a broadband user.
My mom was the same way. Until we got cablemodems in the area, and I convinced her to get one, she didn't see any need for it. Now, she loves it and wouldn't have the internet any other way.
Bah, I got one in person's room and 12 in my room. I used the existing cable TV wires to run 10Base-2 to the third floor and back room PC's. Full e-mail server (with server side spam filtering), file servers, etc in house.
When you put computers at home, the only way to prove you're a geek is to build a complete corporate network there to accomidate four workstations =)
I can barely hear hard drives - when they are new. Really, plug a brand new WD 7200RPM drive in, and you hear a couple clicks and then near silence. Besides the heavy duty 10k+ drives, your normal 7200RPM drives and 5400's are VERY quiet.
Of course, give them a year, and they whine. They all do it eventually, and it's too bad. Unavoidable I guess, because of the fact that the drive heads actually sit on the platters. Eventually, some of the platter wears down and you get the whining sound.
Especially when it comes to computers and technology, the world is increasingly globalized. Even though this is a matter for the courts in Munich, the outcome would still have some weight outside of Germany.
Iomega filled a market gap with the Zip drive. They offered 100MB of space in an external easy to transport device, with disks that were pretty small too.
At the time, you used floppies, or nothing. CD Writers were extremely expensive and the media wasn't much cheaper then a Zip disk. It made sense to go Zip.
They sold a lot of units. They had a corner on the market.
Unfortunately, greed set in and they never sufficiently reduced the cost of the media. Zip disks were just too expensive, and as soon as something more viable hit the market (cheap CDR's and cheap CD Media) they were out.
I still have my Zip 100 Parallel drive and it still works fine. I keep it around in case I ever need to recover someone's Zip disk in the event that they no longer have a drive to read it.
Iomega keeps trying to do the same thing, over and over. Jazz fizzled because media was way too expensive. Same with Zip 250 and Jazz 2GB. I expect this to do the same.
35GB isn't enough data to wow anyone anyways. 100GB would have been more like it. And if they are looking to replace lower capacity DAT backup drives with these things, I can't think of anyone that would risk on these versus the tried and true DDS tape.
I mean, no, I don't want to be put in jail for saving a chat log, but I do believe that this type of thinking promotes freedom. You would have the freedom of saying something to a friend on IRC without worrying that someone is going to use it against you.
In a country where the laws keep on getting more crappy for joe american, we need protection.
I'm with you. And I even have some attachments here and there.
Four years of e-mail and I'm at something like 340MB. I do a lot of e-mail. I'm on several active mailing lists, slashdot. Lots of forums, etc. Lots of these involve e-mail notifications and such.
Not to mention plenty of personal e-mails going about.
If you got a 1GB mailbox in less then three years, you either horde spam in your trash bin, have far too many attachments needlessly taking up space, or you have no life. Even then, 1GB is so much mail. So much that the old stuff isn't even useful anymore.
Another thing too, is you can fit some of the slimmer mini-tower cases standing up three across. This makes pretty good use of the space too, and it's easier to manage then stacking boxes on top of each other.
Since he only wants three PC's to start, and maybe a few more, pretty much any combination would work. Even with mid-tower cases you should be able to fit at least six in a 42U cabinet.
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Sometimes, well, probably many times, EULA's break the law.
Well, kinda. They contain rules that if enforced, would break the law.
Software companies put anything into EULA's and they know that half the stuff in them is likely not enforcable. But you'd have to go to court and have a judge decide; a luxery that most people can't afford.
For software piracy?
Give me a break.
You have people stealing actual tangable goods, and you have people murdering and raping. Regularly.
Someone's priorities are seriously backwards.
It could still be a good idea though, if you factor in the cost of the new bulb and the price is still significantly less then what it would be new.
This varies upon unit and blah blah, but that's what I would do.
You can't really rely on the word of an ebay seller, so you gotta take some precautions is all. Go look at R/C nitro engines. Every single one on ebay has "Less then one gallon" through them. Ya, right.. so you gotta factor in the price for a new piston/sleeve.
I don't personally know anyone with one of these things. The closest I get is a friend with a car CD player that plays discs with MP3's on them.
I mean, sure, they're neat. But get over it, there's GOT to be something more newsworthy then iPods twice a day.
Not every computer geek has one or even wants one.
Which you don't have, apparently.
In the context of the discussion, I was able to figure out that everyone was talking about machines; digital data.
There's always the possibility where a brand new technology all together will be invented without limitations, but I don't believe it will be in our or our grandchildrens' lifetimes and we won't be using brains for storing lossless digital pictures and other media.
I do the same thing. Ohh, I tried backing up my data at various points in my life.
.. 1TB or so. These days, a terrabyte isn't that much anymore. Every so often, I buy the one-step-down-from-biggest drive (for the price.)
I've used floppies, and ZIP disks. I've used CD's and DVD's, and I have a DLT drive I can use to backup a measly 40GB uncompressed data to if I so choose. None of these options are really as good for me then just to simply keep buying new hard drives, and shuffle the data to the new drives as they are purchased.
It's not like I have THAT much data to store. Maybe
In this manner, I never really have to worry about media degredation.
There is and probably will never be any such situation where it takes so long to write to a media that you cannot fill it before it dies.
The largest data stores in the world can be moved from one system to another in a short time, so I don't see this as being even something to consider a possibility.
True, however the panels that will be installed on these things will be a lot more robust. Newer panels can capture much more power then the old ones in the calculators I used in high school. Not to mention there will be a lot more of them.
I think they'll work fine. I mean, your average PDA is going to likely use more power then these things, since PDA's have these really bright TFT screens on them. The meters probably won't have a very complicated display, and the display is what ends up sucking out most of the power.
Wouldn't it become POP4?
Unless it's night time, there's plenty of light rays hitting the panels.
Even if it's a dreary rainy day, your solar powered calculator works just fine, and it's only got three or four low quality solar cells.
Your post is so typical.
Even more so then the "I like linux" posts.
Basically you're just repeating the same post, that's been posted in just about every thread, in every story, every day.
Look, the fact of the matter is that 90% of your hardware is going to work out of the box in Linux today. I install Mandrake, Fedora, whatever. They all pick up my hardware fine.
The problem lies when you have bleeding edge hardware with no Linux support. Or if you have some $5 sound card/video card/firewire card with no documentation and no linux drivers.
It's not necessarily the developers. It's the hardware vendors. And don't tell me you've never ever had a problem getting hardware to work in Windows.
I'm not saying there's no room for improvement. In many ways I like the canned driver packages you get for Windows systems. They *usually* work and require minimal effort to install. But it's often quite easy to get hardware working in the big linux distributions too.
Most people whom are "happy with dialup" don't know the difference.
With a modem, the Internet is simply a fun to-do sometimes. With broadband, it's another world. The changes are more then simply "it's faster." It enables you to do much more, and changes the way you think about the internet.
Going out to see a movie? Pop into a movie website and check the times, order tickets too. Want to find out how something works? Browse through 10 pages in moments. These tasks are a chore on dialup, and really quick and easy on a cablemodem. I'd venture to say that most modem users just don't use the internet like a broadband user.
My mom was the same way. Until we got cablemodems in the area, and I convinced her to get one, she didn't see any need for it. Now, she loves it and wouldn't have the internet any other way.
Okay, let me get this straight.
Download.com. Sourceforge. Countless, countless other companies and web sites.
You can go to them and download files *much* larger then your average MP3, which is let's say about 4MB. Many of them live on advertising alone.
If you're trying to tell me that it's too expensive to provide a service where you make ten cents for every four MB downloaded, I don't buy it.
Only one family computer?
Bah, I got one in person's room and 12 in my room. I used the existing cable TV wires to run 10Base-2 to the third floor and back room PC's. Full e-mail server (with server side spam filtering), file servers, etc in house.
When you put computers at home, the only way to prove you're a geek is to build a complete corporate network there to accomidate four workstations =)
It's close enough to still wear down the coating on the platter. Even the friction of the air molecules passing through that small space will do it.
So, it's just symantics.
I can barely hear hard drives - when they are new. Really, plug a brand new WD 7200RPM drive in, and you hear a couple clicks and then near silence. Besides the heavy duty 10k+ drives, your normal 7200RPM drives and 5400's are VERY quiet.
Of course, give them a year, and they whine. They all do it eventually, and it's too bad. Unavoidable I guess, because of the fact that the drive heads actually sit on the platters. Eventually, some of the platter wears down and you get the whining sound.
As someone said way up above where you apparently did not read, THAT article was about a NEW tax, this one is about enforcing an EXISTING tax.
Your post is the dupe, not the article.
Especially when it comes to computers and technology, the world is increasingly globalized. Even though this is a matter for the courts in Munich, the outcome would still have some weight outside of Germany.
Iomega filled a market gap with the Zip drive. They offered 100MB of space in an external easy to transport device, with disks that were pretty small too.
At the time, you used floppies, or nothing. CD Writers were extremely expensive and the media wasn't much cheaper then a Zip disk. It made sense to go Zip.
They sold a lot of units. They had a corner on the market.
Unfortunately, greed set in and they never sufficiently reduced the cost of the media. Zip disks were just too expensive, and as soon as something more viable hit the market (cheap CDR's and cheap CD Media) they were out.
I still have my Zip 100 Parallel drive and it still works fine. I keep it around in case I ever need to recover someone's Zip disk in the event that they no longer have a drive to read it.
Iomega keeps trying to do the same thing, over and over. Jazz fizzled because media was way too expensive. Same with Zip 250 and Jazz 2GB. I expect this to do the same.
35GB isn't enough data to wow anyone anyways. 100GB would have been more like it. And if they are looking to replace lower capacity DAT backup drives with these things, I can't think of anyone that would risk on these versus the tried and true DDS tape.
Lots of people do Slashdot from work, where lots of us have no choice but to use IE.
That can easily sway the numbers.
They did it so that they could sue people for doing it later on.
I think we need more people like this.
I mean, no, I don't want to be put in jail for saving a chat log, but I do believe that this type of thinking promotes freedom. You would have the freedom of saying something to a friend on IRC without worrying that someone is going to use it against you.
In a country where the laws keep on getting more crappy for joe american, we need protection.
I'm with you. And I even have some attachments here and there.
Four years of e-mail and I'm at something like 340MB. I do a lot of e-mail. I'm on several active mailing lists, slashdot. Lots of forums, etc. Lots of these involve e-mail notifications and such.
Not to mention plenty of personal e-mails going about.
If you got a 1GB mailbox in less then three years, you either horde spam in your trash bin, have far too many attachments needlessly taking up space, or you have no life. Even then, 1GB is so much mail. So much that the old stuff isn't even useful anymore.
There was an "RPG" for an Amiga BBS software called Hack and Slash. Have you ever seen it?
Another thing too, is you can fit some of the slimmer mini-tower cases standing up three across. This makes pretty good use of the space too, and it's easier to manage then stacking boxes on top of each other.
Since he only wants three PC's to start, and maybe a few more, pretty much any combination would work. Even with mid-tower cases you should be able to fit at least six in a 42U cabinet.