If a person settles though, it is their own fault. Regardless of whether they were convinced by DirectTV that they were screwed or not. All they had to do was pick up a phone and call a lawyer. The negligence is their fault, not DirectTv.
Spam is an inevitable by product of having a virtually free message delivery system.
As far as I can tell, this is the first time in the history of the world that a company, legit or not, could advertise their products and services for free. Every other method costs a hell of a lot more money and doesn't reach nearly the same audience. Be it paid tv advertising, direct mail, etc.
As long as email is free to send, boxes will always be full of spam. Spam will be the end of email, the problem is only getting worse, with no real hope in sight.
I don't understand why this happens with every new batch of technology that comes around. Be it email, phone calls, text messages whatever, it seems that a blanket set of laws should be able to apply. If a cop wants to read your email he needs a warrent. If they want to tap your phone they need a warrent (all this is not taking into account the US Patriot Act).
The same should apply to text messages, and every other new technology that comes down the pike.
Actually I could see military applications for this kind of technology. Mount a couple of these on an apache or black hawk with a water reserve attachment and you've got yourself a cheap weapon effective against rioting mobs. More fun then I fire hose without the mess and cost of bullets.
If you expect people to bet on a SCO long shot, we want some better odds than this, 1:1 ain't gonna cut it. Do I hear 1000:1 on a SCO win?
I'll take that action...the dark side is strong with this one...
I personally think that this is a good time, all the law does is allow equal time. Scrolling through the comments I have seen a lot of people very negative about this and I don't understand why. This doesn't violate free speech ( and being an american I don't really know what Europes free speech laws are anyway) it just makes it so if someone decides on their website to attack someone else that they have a fair chance for rebuttle. There seems to be no better way to increase the flow of good infomration.
As I write this though I've come to think of a few interesting situations. What about political campaigns? Do they have to allow their opponenet the chance to respond to their attacks? What about major companies who make advertising claims against other companies? Etc. I have no problem with either of these, I just think it'll be interesitng, and make for an intersting web site. " Our product is 10 times better then Ultrasoft" and now a message from ultrasoft "What they just said is not true."
It seems to me that the last two star wars movies have had far more digital effects (to their disadvantage) then the last two LOTRs put together. It seems odd that WETAs setup would have to be even larger then that for this movie.
soon they'll sell the britney package,
"Now for a limited time only, get the Britney Spears music package...complete with our state of the art kareoke machine, bread job and brain vaporizer. If you act now we'll even throw in whorish outfits too... call 1-800-IAMASLUT now!!"
At risk of sounding like bill gates (no one will ever need more than 64k of ram...) do that many people really care if the mhz line has been pushed forward another couple of yards? In the past it has seemed that the software industry has kept right up with the hardware companies. When they release a new video card they jump on it, a new processor, etc. Now it seems that the hardware companies have gotten so far ahead of the software industry that its going to take years before they take advantage of this. The only people a processor like this will benifit are those doing serious computations in photoshop, digital video or mathamatica and those industry professionals aren't using pentiums anyway. I'm not really sure what my point really is, just that it seems like this war between amd and intel is really pointless. No one is going to need or use this speed for years.
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Is Christianity not a peaceful religion?
I would say Christianity, well in its current incarnation, is not a peaceful religion. They advocate hatred to others such as homesexuals and in some sects of christianity towards other religons in general. Very few if any reglions can truly pure and peaceful in nature.
Could it be argued this is the next stage of human evolution? Perhapse evolution isn't the right word for this. But if we're changing over our society, from the primitive economic structure utilized by the rest of the world towards a more advanced, digital society in general...isn't that the next step? If what we do truely proves to be superior in the next few years, won't natural selection then come into play with other parts of the world who are resistent to the changes come about? If they don't evolve they are at risk of dying out and being overcome.
A "child" dies so its immediatly the parents fault? Parents have become the scapegoat for everything that happens to their children in the last few years. Sometimes kids can just be bad and no ammount of bad or good parenting is going to affect that. When a kid shoots up a school its automatically the parents fault, a kid on drugs = bad parents too it seems.
I don't know about everyone else but I know plenty of people who have great parents but are just rotten eggs. Be it the group the kid was involved with, a chemical imbalance, or whatever, there are plenty of things that could be the cause of his death aside from his parents.
Question though. We think this is the first example of a company doing something like this. However is it possible this has been built into some of the other p2p programs? An example would be something like napster. I never could figure out what the business model for napster was. It had no ads or any other known method of making money, yet they were givin millions of dollars in venture capital money. They had to have presented some method of making money to ge the money didn't they?
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That is more akin to opening up your new tody and finding a note saying you must go out and purchase batteries to make this product work.
You just have to have faith. I am sure my Viagra pills will arrive in the mail any day now.
If a person settles though, it is their own fault. Regardless of whether they were convinced by DirectTV that they were screwed or not. All they had to do was pick up a phone and call a lawyer. The negligence is their fault, not DirectTv.
Spam is an inevitable by product of having a virtually free message delivery system.
As far as I can tell, this is the first time in the history of the world that a company, legit or not, could advertise their products and services for free. Every other method costs a hell of a lot more money and doesn't reach nearly the same audience. Be it paid tv advertising, direct mail, etc.
As long as email is free to send, boxes will always be full of spam. Spam will be the end of email, the problem is only getting worse, with no real hope in sight.
Then it is your responsability to lobby your goverment to crack down on spam in your country.
Comcast ON Demand does a similar thing. You can stream movies, tv shows, etc.
I don't understand why this happens with every new batch of technology that comes around. Be it email, phone calls, text messages whatever, it seems that a blanket set of laws should be able to apply. If a cop wants to read your email he needs a warrent. If they want to tap your phone they need a warrent (all this is not taking into account the US Patriot Act). The same should apply to text messages, and every other new technology that comes down the pike.
how about a nice troll sandwhich?
Don't forget the union rep to uh...ensure that the project isn't done in a more intelligent way.
Actually I could see military applications for this kind of technology. Mount a couple of these on an apache or black hawk with a water reserve attachment and you've got yourself a cheap weapon effective against rioting mobs. More fun then I fire hose without the mess and cost of bullets.
Why hasn't IBM crushed these guys with its Big Blue foot yet?
If you expect people to bet on a SCO long shot, we want some better odds than this, 1:1 ain't gonna cut it. Do I hear 1000:1 on a SCO win? I'll take that action...the dark side is strong with this one...
I personally think that this is a good time, all the law does is allow equal time. Scrolling through the comments I have seen a lot of people very negative about this and I don't understand why. This doesn't violate free speech ( and being an american I don't really know what Europes free speech laws are anyway) it just makes it so if someone decides on their website to attack someone else that they have a fair chance for rebuttle. There seems to be no better way to increase the flow of good infomration. As I write this though I've come to think of a few interesting situations. What about political campaigns? Do they have to allow their opponenet the chance to respond to their attacks? What about major companies who make advertising claims against other companies? Etc. I have no problem with either of these, I just think it'll be interesitng, and make for an intersting web site. " Our product is 10 times better then Ultrasoft" and now a message from ultrasoft "What they just said is not true."
It seems to me that the last two star wars movies have had far more digital effects (to their disadvantage) then the last two LOTRs put together. It seems odd that WETAs setup would have to be even larger then that for this movie.
Maybe El Presidente Bush could ride this thing without tipping it...
The day I see someone making a smoothy as they drive down rt. 95 is the day I stop driving.
you know I just thought of something....this might allow the goverement to monitor our movements!
They can take my keyboard...when they pry it out of my cold dead fingers!
soon they'll sell the britney package, "Now for a limited time only, get the Britney Spears music package...complete with our state of the art kareoke machine, bread job and brain vaporizer. If you act now we'll even throw in whorish outfits too... call 1-800-IAMASLUT now!!"
Taito Corp, those of us that have girlfriend who love to sing kareoke...we salute you...
At risk of sounding like bill gates (no one will ever need more than 64k of ram...) do that many people really care if the mhz line has been pushed forward another couple of yards? In the past it has seemed that the software industry has kept right up with the hardware companies. When they release a new video card they jump on it, a new processor, etc. Now it seems that the hardware companies have gotten so far ahead of the software industry that its going to take years before they take advantage of this. The only people a processor like this will benifit are those doing serious computations in photoshop, digital video or mathamatica and those industry professionals aren't using pentiums anyway. I'm not really sure what my point really is, just that it seems like this war between amd and intel is really pointless. No one is going to need or use this speed for years.
Is Christianity not a peaceful religion? I would say Christianity, well in its current incarnation, is not a peaceful religion. They advocate hatred to others such as homesexuals and in some sects of christianity towards other religons in general. Very few if any reglions can truly pure and peaceful in nature.
Could it be argued this is the next stage of human evolution? Perhapse evolution isn't the right word for this. But if we're changing over our society, from the primitive economic structure utilized by the rest of the world towards a more advanced, digital society in general...isn't that the next step? If what we do truely proves to be superior in the next few years, won't natural selection then come into play with other parts of the world who are resistent to the changes come about? If they don't evolve they are at risk of dying out and being overcome.
A "child" dies so its immediatly the parents fault? Parents have become the scapegoat for everything that happens to their children in the last few years. Sometimes kids can just be bad and no ammount of bad or good parenting is going to affect that. When a kid shoots up a school its automatically the parents fault, a kid on drugs = bad parents too it seems. I don't know about everyone else but I know plenty of people who have great parents but are just rotten eggs. Be it the group the kid was involved with, a chemical imbalance, or whatever, there are plenty of things that could be the cause of his death aside from his parents.
Question though. We think this is the first example of a company doing something like this. However is it possible this has been built into some of the other p2p programs? An example would be something like napster. I never could figure out what the business model for napster was. It had no ads or any other known method of making money, yet they were givin millions of dollars in venture capital money. They had to have presented some method of making money to ge the money didn't they?