A modification to that analogy would be Walmart knocking every 20 minutes with a new deal, and then you driving to Walmart, finding the parking lot filled with cars, and starting to fill up the parking lot of "Mom and Pop's Grocery Emporium" next door so you can go into Walmart and buy 5 items to return. It may not be illegal, but i bet Mom and Pop would have something to say about you filling their parking lot and preventing them from doing business at the same time. How many of these sites exist on shared servers or share one pipe with other servers? Those other servers, unlucky enough to be on the same bandwidth as an alleged spammer's site, get affected too.
But Joe's obviously guilty, isn't he? I mean, Anti-Spammers say he is, and they'd obviously never make mistakes or have any prejudices. We should blindly trust Anti-Spammers, because they're doing something we like, and that's all that matters. That is, until Anti-Spammers make a mistake and accidentally add linux.org or Slashdot to their list. Then we hate them, because they're evil and want to ruin us.
Yeah, and how many kids need features that aren't in the iPod? Contrary to popular belief on/., most people in the country don't really care about encoding to Ogg or FLAC, or having some niche feature that very few people ever use. The iPod works for most people (including myself) that have their MP3s and AACs and just want to listen to their music that they already have on iTunes. What other features could the average kid possibly need?
Something can be done about this. Don't buy the product. No one's forcing you to buy Half-Life 2, and it's certainly not essential to anyone's life or business. I highly doubt something as relatively nonintrusive as requiring the CD to be in the drive is "anti-consumer" by any means, nor is it illegal. It's their game, and they have the right to determine whether you need the CD to play it. They're not requiring you to pay anything more to play the game once you've installed it, they're asking you to do one small action with something you already have in your possession. You don't have a right in this country to have every game manufacturer follow exactly your guidelines for program usage. You do have the right to determine whether you open your wallet for the game in the first place.
So what you're saying is that Valve should feel responsible to rectify the situation when you willingly decide to have a computer without a CD drive? They told you that you needed the drive to play the game. You willingly chose not to meet the stated requirements for the game, and somehow you feel entitled to do things that are against a license that you agreed to when you installed the program? I'm sorry, but that just doesn't make any sense.
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I don't have any problems connecting to the site with Firefox.
I'd say that Firefox is just about as fast as Safari on the vast majority of pages. There are a few weird pages (my college's course schedule, for instance) that load slower because of things like long tables or complex Javascript. For the most part, though, I don't have any speed problems at all.
I apologize for the misunderstanding about the ATRAC. I was under the impression, from what I heard, that you had to convert to ATRAC on your computer first, then transfer the converted files to the minidisc.
Additionally, while the CD may be the normal player for most people, when we're talking about the iPod, etc., we're talking about a market for MP3 players already. People who use CDs are very unlikely to search out an iPod when they don't have a computer. Yes, Minidiscs may work for them, but they're not going to be an "iPod killer" solely because it's a totally different market altogether. To comment on the convenience of a minidisc when talking about competing with MP3 players is counterintuitive when the markets are quite different.
Convenience wise though you'll have to work hard to beat minidisk. Having to plug your player into a PC just to change albums gets old really fast.
Well, convenience also takes a big hit with the Minidisc format. In exchange for being able to change discs on the go, you have to be willing to convert all of your files to ATRAC. As well, you'll have to be willing to either listen to those files using a Sony player while on your computer, or keep around two copies, one in ATRAC and one in your preferred format used by your normal player. Doesn't seem very convenient to me.
Allerca claims that the vast majority of cat allergies are related to a protein in the saliva of cats. Their goal is to make a cat that doesn't produce this protein (which they also say isn't at all required for the cat's well-being) and therefore stop the allergen. Of course, this is all a matter of debate, and going on just Allerca's claims is very tenuous indeed.
I'm just going by these instructions: Reset Your iPod. I haven't had my 4G iPod for more than a few weeks (of course, they update them right after I buy one, just like with my iBook G3 bought a few weeks before the G4 was released;), but I was always under the impression from what I'd been told that the procedure in my previous post was what reset the firmware on the iPod. I could be completely wrong, of course.
Apparently more searching led me to find different instructions for iPods with dock connectors. You have to plug it into the outlet using the power adapter that came with the iPod, flick the Hold switch on and off, then do the Menu+Play thing. See if that works at all.
Did you try resetting the iPod? Hold down the Menu and Play buttons together for a few seconds until the Apple logo appears on the screen. Sometimes that works for people with iPod problems.
The batteries notice has been around for quite a while now. I think it's just a disclaimer to shield them from anyone coming back and saying that Apple never told them that a rechargeable battery can only be charged a finite number of times. No rechargeable battery will last forever, and if you charge your iPod every night, those charge cycles add up a lot quicker than your standard NiMH batteries that you only charge every few weeks.
It looks like the only new firmware in this latest updater is the iPod Photo 1.0 firmware. Nothing else has changed from what I can tell, so there's really no need to download it if you don't want to.
"Technically superior" doesn't mean anything when compared to the common standard of "good enough." Putting aside the issue of whether Ogg is even superior at all, unless there's a very good reason to switch to Ogg, most people will stick with the more standard MP3. Since MP3 files sound and work good enough for the vast majority of people, and they can be played on virtually any music player, there's no incentive for people to switch. Debate all you want over such droll things as patent issues, bitrates, etc., the mass public has latched onto MP3, and there's no current valid reason for them to switch to Ogg when it doesn't even work or encode in a lot of music players.
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Nope. I have an ADC student subscription, which has the same disclaimer. I purchased just a Power Mac G5 without a monitor and got the discount as promised. Basically, it just means that you CAN purchase a monitor at the same time, not that you MUST. If they didn't say "CPU with one monitor", it would be interpreted as JUST the system, so they make it clearer in the disclaimer.
No. She's not "maintaining" anything, because she doesn't have those rights yet. But she wants them, and thinks she deserves them, and believes that making a scene in public will help.
This was more of a semantics problem, one that I realized shortly after submitting the comment. What I meant was more along the lines of the fact that the woman was trying to take control of the rights that she (and I) knows she deserves, but that aren't being accorded to her by the restaurant owner and society.
I also don't draw a parallel between the civil rights movement and Badnarik's position. The civil rights events were much more important to American society and rights than Badnarik's participation in debates. Ask most people, and they'll say that the right of African Americans to live free of institutionalized discrimination is a far greater issue than whether a Libertarian candidate can debate using private funding and locations.
In closing, I will say that I can agree to disagree on these points. Politics in general can get people riled up, and in many ways it's one of the most illogical human systems devised (on all sides of the issue).
In my mind, it boils down to intent. The black woman in your example is not primarily trying to create an artificial media event, she is trying to take control of her rights as a human being. Badnarik has no such defense in my mind. He was there, it seems, solely to create a media event by creating an uproar , using a court order that he knew full well he shouldn't be serving by himself. He had no intention of actually attempting to enter the debate, he merely wanted to be on TV showing his perceived injustice regarding the debate system. So, in summary, the black woman is performing the act with the intent of actually maintaining her rights, whereas Badnarik intended solely to create a media event, without actually attempting to participate directly in the event at hand.
It wasn't an act of civil disobedience. They weren't protesting anything. They were instead trying to serve papers (an Order to Show Cause). However, many states won't allow papers to be served by someone who's a party in the case. When Badnarik, et al, were asked to leave private property and didn't, they were arrested for trespassing. They had no right to be there in the first place, so I don't see how you can call it civil disobedience.
Virtually any good-sized college nowadays provides Office to students for free under a Microsoft licensing agreement. All I have to do every year is go down to the campus computer store, show my student ID, and they'll give me a CD with the latest copy of Office on it. It's a convenient way for Microsoft to entrench Office into the academic realm for pretty cheap.
Additionally, computers ARE in fact a requirement at my school. Virtually everything is done by computers. Class notes, assignments, and even grades are issued entirely by computer. Everything is automated so that we don't even need to see any of the administration to get things done. I haven't been in any of the offices for about a month now.
I suppose I was oversimplifying the issue a little bit. For the record, I'm a very happy owner of a dual-2.0 Power Mac G5, and yes, I have noticed the same thing about the room getting warmer, especially considering that I live in a closet-size dorm room.
PCs don't have 9 fans because they take the position that it's better to cool everything in the case with one or two fans, even if that means having the fans at a high RPM and, thus, creating lots of noise. The only reason the G5 needs 9 fans is because it cools each of 4 areas separately. There's no need to create noise to cool the drive bays when the only thing that's warm at a certain time are the processors, and vice versa.
Well, for one, khtml has a significant number of Apple-contributed patches in it, the code for which came from Safari. Not to mention that the Darwin kernel, which OS X runs on top of, is open source. Also, they have open-sourced a lot of implementations of their various technologies, i.e. Rendezvous, Darwin Streaming Server, web technologies, etc. That should be enough to convince you that Apple isn't just taking everything and giving nothing back.
I think researchers would be less worried about losing their jobs over a cancer cure (which isn't even guaranteed...there's always something else to research) and more worried about protecting their own health and the health of their families. Doesn't help you in the end if you have a job and die of cancer before you even have a chance to retire. They have as vested an interest in finding a cancer cure as any one of us.
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A modification to that analogy would be Walmart knocking every 20 minutes with a new deal, and then you driving to Walmart, finding the parking lot filled with cars, and starting to fill up the parking lot of "Mom and Pop's Grocery Emporium" next door so you can go into Walmart and buy 5 items to return. It may not be illegal, but i bet Mom and Pop would have something to say about you filling their parking lot and preventing them from doing business at the same time. How many of these sites exist on shared servers or share one pipe with other servers? Those other servers, unlucky enough to be on the same bandwidth as an alleged spammer's site, get affected too.
But Joe's obviously guilty, isn't he? I mean, Anti-Spammers say he is, and they'd obviously never make mistakes or have any prejudices. We should blindly trust Anti-Spammers, because they're doing something we like, and that's all that matters. That is, until Anti-Spammers make a mistake and accidentally add linux.org or Slashdot to their list. Then we hate them, because they're evil and want to ruin us.
Yeah, and how many kids need features that aren't in the iPod? Contrary to popular belief on /., most people in the country don't really care about encoding to Ogg or FLAC, or having some niche feature that very few people ever use. The iPod works for most people (including myself) that have their MP3s and AACs and just want to listen to their music that they already have on iTunes. What other features could the average kid possibly need?
Something can be done about this. Don't buy the product. No one's forcing you to buy Half-Life 2, and it's certainly not essential to anyone's life or business. I highly doubt something as relatively nonintrusive as requiring the CD to be in the drive is "anti-consumer" by any means, nor is it illegal. It's their game, and they have the right to determine whether you need the CD to play it. They're not requiring you to pay anything more to play the game once you've installed it, they're asking you to do one small action with something you already have in your possession. You don't have a right in this country to have every game manufacturer follow exactly your guidelines for program usage. You do have the right to determine whether you open your wallet for the game in the first place.
So what you're saying is that Valve should feel responsible to rectify the situation when you willingly decide to have a computer without a CD drive? They told you that you needed the drive to play the game. You willingly chose not to meet the stated requirements for the game, and somehow you feel entitled to do things that are against a license that you agreed to when you installed the program? I'm sorry, but that just doesn't make any sense.
I don't have any problems connecting to the site with Firefox.
I'd say that Firefox is just about as fast as Safari on the vast majority of pages. There are a few weird pages (my college's course schedule, for instance) that load slower because of things like long tables or complex Javascript. For the most part, though, I don't have any speed problems at all.
I apologize for the misunderstanding about the ATRAC. I was under the impression, from what I heard, that you had to convert to ATRAC on your computer first, then transfer the converted files to the minidisc.
Additionally, while the CD may be the normal player for most people, when we're talking about the iPod, etc., we're talking about a market for MP3 players already. People who use CDs are very unlikely to search out an iPod when they don't have a computer. Yes, Minidiscs may work for them, but they're not going to be an "iPod killer" solely because it's a totally different market altogether. To comment on the convenience of a minidisc when talking about competing with MP3 players is counterintuitive when the markets are quite different.
Convenience wise though you'll have to work hard to beat minidisk. Having to plug your player into a PC just to change albums gets old really fast.
Well, convenience also takes a big hit with the Minidisc format. In exchange for being able to change discs on the go, you have to be willing to convert all of your files to ATRAC. As well, you'll have to be willing to either listen to those files using a Sony player while on your computer, or keep around two copies, one in ATRAC and one in your preferred format used by your normal player. Doesn't seem very convenient to me.
Allerca claims that the vast majority of cat allergies are related to a protein in the saliva of cats. Their goal is to make a cat that doesn't produce this protein (which they also say isn't at all required for the cat's well-being) and therefore stop the allergen. Of course, this is all a matter of debate, and going on just Allerca's claims is very tenuous indeed.
I'm just going by these instructions: Reset Your iPod. I haven't had my 4G iPod for more than a few weeks (of course, they update them right after I buy one, just like with my iBook G3 bought a few weeks before the G4 was released ;), but I was always under the impression from what I'd been told that the procedure in my previous post was what reset the firmware on the iPod. I could be completely wrong, of course.
Apparently more searching led me to find different instructions for iPods with dock connectors. You have to plug it into the outlet using the power adapter that came with the iPod, flick the Hold switch on and off, then do the Menu+Play thing. See if that works at all.
Did you try resetting the iPod? Hold down the Menu and Play buttons together for a few seconds until the Apple logo appears on the screen. Sometimes that works for people with iPod problems.
The batteries notice has been around for quite a while now. I think it's just a disclaimer to shield them from anyone coming back and saying that Apple never told them that a rechargeable battery can only be charged a finite number of times. No rechargeable battery will last forever, and if you charge your iPod every night, those charge cycles add up a lot quicker than your standard NiMH batteries that you only charge every few weeks.
It looks like the only new firmware in this latest updater is the iPod Photo 1.0 firmware. Nothing else has changed from what I can tell, so there's really no need to download it if you don't want to.
"Technically superior" doesn't mean anything when compared to the common standard of "good enough." Putting aside the issue of whether Ogg is even superior at all, unless there's a very good reason to switch to Ogg, most people will stick with the more standard MP3. Since MP3 files sound and work good enough for the vast majority of people, and they can be played on virtually any music player, there's no incentive for people to switch. Debate all you want over such droll things as patent issues, bitrates, etc., the mass public has latched onto MP3, and there's no current valid reason for them to switch to Ogg when it doesn't even work or encode in a lot of music players.
Nope. I have an ADC student subscription, which has the same disclaimer. I purchased just a Power Mac G5 without a monitor and got the discount as promised. Basically, it just means that you CAN purchase a monitor at the same time, not that you MUST. If they didn't say "CPU with one monitor", it would be interpreted as JUST the system, so they make it clearer in the disclaimer.
No. She's not "maintaining" anything, because she doesn't have those rights yet. But she wants them, and thinks she deserves them, and believes that making a scene in public will help.
This was more of a semantics problem, one that I realized shortly after submitting the comment. What I meant was more along the lines of the fact that the woman was trying to take control of the rights that she (and I) knows she deserves, but that aren't being accorded to her by the restaurant owner and society.
I also don't draw a parallel between the civil rights movement and Badnarik's position. The civil rights events were much more important to American society and rights than Badnarik's participation in debates. Ask most people, and they'll say that the right of African Americans to live free of institutionalized discrimination is a far greater issue than whether a Libertarian candidate can debate using private funding and locations.
In closing, I will say that I can agree to disagree on these points. Politics in general can get people riled up, and in many ways it's one of the most illogical human systems devised (on all sides of the issue).
In my mind, it boils down to intent. The black woman in your example is not primarily trying to create an artificial media event, she is trying to take control of her rights as a human being. Badnarik has no such defense in my mind. He was there, it seems, solely to create a media event by creating an uproar , using a court order that he knew full well he shouldn't be serving by himself. He had no intention of actually attempting to enter the debate, he merely wanted to be on TV showing his perceived injustice regarding the debate system. So, in summary, the black woman is performing the act with the intent of actually maintaining her rights, whereas Badnarik intended solely to create a media event, without actually attempting to participate directly in the event at hand.
It wasn't an act of civil disobedience. They weren't protesting anything. They were instead trying to serve papers (an Order to Show Cause). However, many states won't allow papers to be served by someone who's a party in the case. When Badnarik, et al, were asked to leave private property and didn't, they were arrested for trespassing. They had no right to be there in the first place, so I don't see how you can call it civil disobedience.
Virtually any good-sized college nowadays provides Office to students for free under a Microsoft licensing agreement. All I have to do every year is go down to the campus computer store, show my student ID, and they'll give me a CD with the latest copy of Office on it. It's a convenient way for Microsoft to entrench Office into the academic realm for pretty cheap.
Additionally, computers ARE in fact a requirement at my school. Virtually everything is done by computers. Class notes, assignments, and even grades are issued entirely by computer. Everything is automated so that we don't even need to see any of the administration to get things done. I haven't been in any of the offices for about a month now.
I suppose I was oversimplifying the issue a little bit. For the record, I'm a very happy owner of a dual-2.0 Power Mac G5, and yes, I have noticed the same thing about the room getting warmer, especially considering that I live in a closet-size dorm room.
PCs don't have 9 fans because they take the position that it's better to cool everything in the case with one or two fans, even if that means having the fans at a high RPM and, thus, creating lots of noise. The only reason the G5 needs 9 fans is because it cools each of 4 areas separately. There's no need to create noise to cool the drive bays when the only thing that's warm at a certain time are the processors, and vice versa.
Well, for one, khtml has a significant number of Apple-contributed patches in it, the code for which came from Safari. Not to mention that the Darwin kernel, which OS X runs on top of, is open source. Also, they have open-sourced a lot of implementations of their various technologies, i.e. Rendezvous, Darwin Streaming Server, web technologies, etc. That should be enough to convince you that Apple isn't just taking everything and giving nothing back.
I think researchers would be less worried about losing their jobs over a cancer cure (which isn't even guaranteed...there's always something else to research) and more worried about protecting their own health and the health of their families. Doesn't help you in the end if you have a job and die of cancer before you even have a chance to retire. They have as vested an interest in finding a cancer cure as any one of us.