Now the question is, are they going to allow PCs to read this new format? Or would eveyone have to go out and buy a new $500 CD player... I'm sure this new format will flop. It's advantages over CD aren't great enough to justify people to switch, if, in fact , people will be required to switch.
Once the students get familiar with StarOffice, or any other free Office application, they can enter the workplace and use StarOffice rather than MS Office. As long as the documents are portable between the two, then there's no reason why people won't switch over to StarOffice.
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The problem with radio now is that they take a good song, and play it as often as possible until people are utterly sick of that song, and then never play it again. WTF is up with that? This is another reason why MP3s are so popular. People can listen to whatever they want, as often as they want. Not the same song 10 times a day.
Eventually people will stop listening and the free market will take care of the rest.
Samsung has a fairly new laser printer out. The ML-1250 costs only $300 CDN, which is about $200 US. The ink costs about $80 CDN, which is like $55 US. Seriously, screw ink jets.
I'm on Rogers, and they raised prices. I know Bell Sympatico raised prices. All companies are doing this because of the small percentage of people sucking up a huge amount of bandwidth. It's costing them too much money.
Everyone knows it's gonna happen. Someday, these scientists are gonna create a breed of killer tomatoes!!! It will be the end of the world as we know it...
Seriously... why doesn't RDRAM die already... everyone knows it sucks for its price compared to DDR..... I hope Intel learned their lesson, they can't force stupid (and expensive) things onto consumers...
This ia a very dangerous decision. It will affect all of free speech on US websites. I really think that sites that offer news, not opinions, should under the same rules as newspapers and magazines. But people with personal websites shouldn't be touched.
There's no way the MPAA can succeed in this. All analog-to-digital conversion equipement?? I remember using a really simple A to D converter in one of my courses in University. I bet that chip costed a buck or two. Putting anti-piracy measures in it will increase the cost significantly, and for a really simple A to D converter? That's just ridiculous! Who are these morons coming up with this crap? This won't fly... no matter how dysfunctional these law-makers are.
Well how about this?
You have 2 passwords:
1 - hard to remember, but written on paper.
2 - east to remember, but memorized.
With this, it will prevent hackers from getting in remotely, and it will prevent malicious co-workers from getting both passwords.
Haha, it's always a matter of time before someone figures out how to beat any copy protection. When will they learn? Now, I wonder if Sony will keep this ridiculous copy protection scheme now that it's beat...
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...
Don't screw the customers, or the customers will screw you.
You Americans are lucky to have good roller coasters. The roller coasters at Canada's Wonderland (Near Toronto) aren't nearly as good as the ones in Cedar Point.... they haven't added a new coaster in like 5 years!
More like Microsoft's security. It'd be funny if that comment triggered people to move over to Linux. I really wanna see MS shoot themselves in the foot big time, like Intel with RAMBUS.
Good point. But I generated them randomly. Now who uses random letters for e-mail other than spammers?? So I think the probability of generating a valid e-mail address that someone actually uses (other than spammers) is very small. Now I'm not going to calculate that probability! (I just had a probability final exam)
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Now the question is, are they going to allow PCs to read this new format? Or would eveyone have to go out and buy a new $500 CD player... I'm sure this new format will flop. It's advantages over CD aren't great enough to justify people to switch, if, in fact , people will be required to switch.
Just wait till OPEC decides to buy Iceland.
Once the students get familiar with StarOffice, or any other free Office application, they can enter the workplace and use StarOffice rather than MS Office. As long as the documents are portable between the two, then there's no reason why people won't switch over to StarOffice.
The problem with radio now is that they take a good song, and play it as often as possible until people are utterly sick of that song, and then never play it again. WTF is up with that? This is another reason why MP3s are so popular. People can listen to whatever they want, as often as they want. Not the same song 10 times a day.
Eventually people will stop listening and the free market will take care of the rest.
Dude.. what the hell are you talking about?
Wristbands, This is definitely a must! And a some solvent to wash away the marks they put on your hands with a big black marker.
Right! Send her money! Anything she needs, she can get with money! Booz, weed, booz....
Spam is going out of hand, something has to be done about it, even though it'll probably be ineffective now, you still have to start somewhere.
Samsung has a fairly new laser printer out. The ML-1250 costs only $300 CDN, which is about $200 US. The ink costs about $80 CDN, which is like $55 US. Seriously, screw ink jets.
I'm on Rogers, and they raised prices. I know Bell Sympatico raised prices. All companies are doing this because of the small percentage of people sucking up a huge amount of bandwidth. It's costing them too much money.
Everyone knows it's gonna happen. Someday, these scientists are gonna create a breed of killer tomatoes!!! It will be the end of the world as we know it...
Lets send all the spammers to Mars. That'll teach em.
Seriously... why doesn't RDRAM die already... everyone knows it sucks for its price compared to DDR..... I hope Intel learned their lesson, they can't force stupid (and expensive) things onto consumers...
This ia a very dangerous decision. It will affect all of free speech on US websites. I really think that sites that offer news, not opinions, should under the same rules as newspapers and magazines. But people with personal websites shouldn't be touched.
Who here uses XP anyway, /.ers all use Linux, so it seems to me... I used XP tho, Linux is too much of a pain in the ars.
There's no way the MPAA can succeed in this. All analog-to-digital conversion equipement?? I remember using a really simple A to D converter in one of my courses in University. I bet that chip costed a buck or two. Putting anti-piracy measures in it will increase the cost significantly, and for a really simple A to D converter? That's just ridiculous! Who are these morons coming up with this crap? This won't fly... no matter how dysfunctional these law-makers are.
Does Microsoft really need more money??
Well how about this? You have 2 passwords: 1 - hard to remember, but written on paper. 2 - east to remember, but memorized. With this, it will prevent hackers from getting in remotely, and it will prevent malicious co-workers from getting both passwords.
I hear ya man, it's like how radio stations play a good song to death.
Haha, it's always a matter of time before someone figures out how to beat any copy protection. When will they learn? Now, I wonder if Sony will keep this ridiculous copy protection scheme now that it's beat...
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...
Don't screw the customers, or the customers will screw you.
You Americans are lucky to have good roller coasters. The roller coasters at Canada's Wonderland (Near Toronto) aren't nearly as good as the ones in Cedar Point.... they haven't added a new coaster in like 5 years!
More like Microsoft's security. It'd be funny if that comment triggered people to move over to Linux. I really wanna see MS shoot themselves in the foot big time, like Intel with RAMBUS.
Good point. But I generated them randomly. Now who uses random letters for e-mail other than spammers?? So I think the probability of generating a valid e-mail address that someone actually uses (other than spammers) is very small. Now I'm not going to calculate that probability! (I just had a probability final exam)
Here's a list of non-existent e-mail addresses for those damn spam bots. GO GET EM BOYS!
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