> I hate to be the one to break it to you, but > you don't own the games you buy. You own a > license to use those games. Big difference.
In which case the media it runs from and the number of copies thereof that I maintain for my personal use (so long as I only use one at a time) become irrelevant. Which do I own: the physical product or the license? They seem to want to have it both ways. If I only own a license, then then the amount of physical copies shouldn't matter. If I only own the media, then it should be warrented as a physical product.
The one thing space exploration opponents always forget is... and I hate to paraphrase the NRA, but it's better to have efficient, reliable space travel and not need it than to not have it and need it. Besides that, the technology that comes out of how to put people on other planets will be useful to mankind even if what they discover is not....Sean.
I was wondering how long it would take in a Slashdot TV thread for someone to climb up and beat his chest and proclaim his lack of TV watching, and subsequent intellectual superiority, as if anyone cares.
If you want to throw out the baby with the bathwater, fine, but there is some good stuff out there if you dig for it. Dish Network has some really cool educational channels up in the 9000 range with college lectures and arts programming and such. They also have the NASA channel on their primary satellite, so you don't need a special dish to get it like DirecTV. DirecTV also has some edu channels but I don't think as many. FCC rule says a certain percentage of space on each satellite has to be devoted to educational channels. I'm not sure if Cable has a similar requirement.
> The venerable HPLJ II was probably the most durable printer ever built
Word. Those things are tanks. Probably the pinnacle of quality workmanship from HP. It's been downhill for them ever since. What's more, the people that use them don't want to give them up. I've scoured auctions trying to find one but they just don't turn up. I got a Brother HL1240 several years ago and it has been doing fine for me. Don't care about color and I didn't want to end up in ink cardridge hell like all my friends/relatives. I'm still on the factory toner cartridge.
I hate nipples AND touchpads (but I hate touchpads more).
What The hell happened to trackballs in laptops? I love
trackballs, even on my desktop machines.
Yes, without ads the channels would cost much more and then the cable and DBS companies would be forced, God forbid, to unbundle them so that you could only buy what you want. I would gladly pay the same thing I'm paying now for commercial free versions of the 10% of the channels that I get that I watch....Sean.
It's legal for those specific 5 channels by federal exemption. The only catch is that if a local WB or UPN affiliate requests that Dish not sell those channels in their DMA, Dish has to abide. So far only a few DMA's have submitted such requests.
I've had one too for almost a couple years now. It has been
100% solid and transparent. Set the ID and termination
jumpers, plug it in and forget it.
I got it because my new (at the time) WD400 40 gig
drive wouldn't play nice with the IDE bus on that
motherboard. I already had a SCSI controller for my
CD-ROM & CDR, so I gave it a shot. Only $70 from
Microland at the time. It's not blazing fast, but neither
is my SCSI card. It also allowed me to let my boot
drive and Zip drive have the primary and secondary
IDE busses to themselves. Everything can run in
parallel in complete harmony.
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> you don't own the games you buy. You own a
> license to use those games. Big difference.
In which case the media it runs from and the
number of copies thereof that I maintain for my
personal use (so long as I only use one at a
time) become irrelevant. Which do I own: the
physical product or the license? They seem to
want to have it both ways. If I only own a
license, then then the amount of physical
copies shouldn't matter. If I only own
the media, then it should be warrented as
a physical product.
Probably just because "SS18" sounds like ...Sean.
"satan" if you say it right.
The one thing space exploration opponents always forget is... and I hate to paraphrase the NRA, but it's better to have efficient, reliable space travel and not need it than to not have it and need it. Besides that, the technology that comes out of how to put people on other planets will be useful to mankind even if what they discover is not.
I was wondering how long it would take in a Slashdot TV thread for someone to climb up and beat his chest and proclaim his lack of TV watching, and subsequent intellectual superiority, as if anyone cares.
If you want to throw out the baby with the bathwater, fine, but there is some good stuff out there if you dig for it. Dish Network has some really cool educational channels up in the 9000 range with college lectures and arts programming and such. They also have the NASA channel on their primary satellite, so you don't need a special dish to get it like DirecTV. DirecTV also has some edu channels but I don't think as many. FCC rule says a certain percentage of space on each satellite has to be devoted to educational channels. I'm not sure if Cable has a similar requirement.
Ooh. I had that. You could build bridges and
buildings and buildings with bridges...
Stuff could get pretty big too.
I still have a few posts and girders kicking
around, mixed in with my Legos.
Don't you mean BIZARRO Cartoon Network?!!
...Sean.
5 point obscure reference.
I was going to download the latest Donnas CD until I
happened upon it in Target for $9.99. I said to myself
"For that price I'm buying it."
It's all about value.
The CD kicks ass, BTW.
Word. Those things are tanks. Probably the pinnacle of quality workmanship from HP. It's been downhill for them ever since. What's more, the people that use them don't want to give them up. I've scoured auctions trying to find one but they just don't turn up. I got a Brother HL1240 several years ago and it has been doing fine for me. Don't care about color and I didn't want to end up in ink cardridge hell like all my friends/relatives. I'm still on the factory toner cartridge.
I hate nipples AND touchpads (but I hate touchpads more). What The hell happened to trackballs in laptops? I love trackballs, even on my desktop machines.
> this crap will be cracked faster than....
...Sean.
Marion Barry with a cheap hooker?
Yes, without ads the channels would cost much more and ...Sean.
then the cable and DBS companies would be forced, God
forbid, to unbundle them so that you could only buy what
you want. I would gladly pay the same thing I'm paying now
for commercial free versions of the 10% of the channels that
I get that I watch.
It's legal for those specific 5 channels by federal exemption. The only catch is that if a local WB or UPN affiliate requests that Dish not sell those channels in their DMA, Dish has to abide. So far only a few DMA's have submitted such requests.
I got it because my new (at the time) WD400 40 gig drive wouldn't play nice with the IDE bus on that motherboard. I already had a SCSI controller for my CD-ROM & CDR, so I gave it a shot. Only $70 from Microland at the time. It's not blazing fast, but neither is my SCSI card. It also allowed me to let my boot drive and Zip drive have the primary and secondary IDE busses to themselves. Everything can run in parallel in complete harmony.