Let's be fair here...Washinton hosts the biggest corporate anarchist in the world, namely Microsoft. If you are going to attack Verizon for it's marketing tactics Washinton state, why not go after Microsoft too. Or is it that Washington has something to lose if they mess with Microsoft.....Lots of money. The government IS big business......wake up washington!!
Over the last year we have replaced over 400 IBM drives in both Sun and IBM disk arrays. All of these failed between 2 and 8 months of age. Most of the replacements are fujitsu. So far no problems, but I have to wonder if right around the end of the year the fujitsu's are going to start to fail.....Oh well it is job security for me if the servers never had problems I'd be out of a job...
You know this sounds fair to me...
If I buy a game or music cd and decide to loan it to a friend I can do that. Why not do the same over a network. As long as only 1 copy of the game/music cd is running at once what is the problem?
Another thing has occured to me. If we are just buying a license to use the music when we buy a CD then shouldn't we be entitled to free new media when it becomes available?
In the 60's and 70's I bought hundreds of Vinyl Albums. As cd's emerged I was forced to buy the same music on the new media. So as far as I am concerned I have paid for 2 copies of the same music and why shouldn't I be able to give one away to a friend?
Why can the music industry charge twice for the same thing and then freak out when people give away a copy. If I truly am buying a license then if I need new media I should not have to pay full price, just a reasonable cost to provide the new media, as I already bought a license.
What we need to do to big business is use the power we have as consumers and not consume. Stop buying anything from these crooks for one month and we could change it all for ever!!
Thats it!!
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Let's be fair here...Washinton hosts the biggest corporate anarchist in the world, namely Microsoft. If you are going to attack Verizon for it's marketing tactics Washinton state, why not go after Microsoft too. Or is it that Washington has something to lose if they mess with Microsoft.....Lots of money. The government IS big business......wake up washington!!
Over the last year we have replaced over 400 IBM drives in both Sun and IBM disk arrays. All of these failed between 2 and 8 months of age. Most of the replacements are fujitsu. So far no problems, but I have to wonder if right around the end of the year the fujitsu's are going to start to fail.....Oh well it is job security for me if the servers never had problems I'd be out of a job...
You know this sounds fair to me... If I buy a game or music cd and decide to loan it to a friend I can do that. Why not do the same over a network. As long as only 1 copy of the game/music cd is running at once what is the problem? Another thing has occured to me. If we are just buying a license to use the music when we buy a CD then shouldn't we be entitled to free new media when it becomes available? In the 60's and 70's I bought hundreds of Vinyl Albums. As cd's emerged I was forced to buy the same music on the new media. So as far as I am concerned I have paid for 2 copies of the same music and why shouldn't I be able to give one away to a friend? Why can the music industry charge twice for the same thing and then freak out when people give away a copy. If I truly am buying a license then if I need new media I should not have to pay full price, just a reasonable cost to provide the new media, as I already bought a license. What we need to do to big business is use the power we have as consumers and not consume. Stop buying anything from these crooks for one month and we could change it all for ever!! Thats it!!