Yes. Drawing on experience is an infringement. Let's all go back to living in caves, and using stone tools. Those technologies are in the public domain, but I think fire and the wheel are still protected by patent. We'll have to stop using them.
Maybe they'll figure out that Pearl Jam and the whole Seattle thing are so ten years ago, and sucked then, too, so they'll stop manufacuting Pearl Jam clones like Creed and Nickelback, and Moby, and Staind, and the other ten zillion of them! If life is as bad as these whining bitches make it out to be, why don't they just pull a Kurt Cobain? Did you ever hear the Ballad of Kurt Cobain? Duh dah dunt, da duh da duh da dunt, Pow!
Broadcast TV is free, unlike cable and dish, which offer only more crap, not better programming. Besides, if a nerd has to choose between the idiot box, and broadband because of budget constraints, broadband is the must have and who needs the idiot box.
Hewlett-Compaqard-Bells, Gateways, E-machines, Dells, and the like are big turds. Anyone in the know will buy a white box, or build it themselves. That way, you at least get a big enough power supply to drive all of your toys, and components that aren't trashed by a minor thunderstorm. The big computer companies view their customers as a cheap commodity, and are building machines like American cars in the '70s. Planned obsolescence. More people are finding this out every day, and kicking them to the curb.
From the article..."RCMP spokesman Corporal Benoît Desjardins said jamming is an important part of the security measures for both events.
"The RCMP must ensure the safety and security of those attending," he said yesterday.
"It could be used, for example, if there was threat of a detonation of some type of a remote-controlled device. We could jam the frequencies to make sure nobody could send a signal to that bomb."
He did not know, however, how the jamming would affect cell phones or commercial radio transmissions.
If they jam to prevent such a detonation, they may cause the very detonation they hoped to prevent.
"he did not know, however," This is the real problem. The authorities arond the globe are running around like chickens with their heads cut off from the specter of terrorism. This is the very choas Bin Laden and his ilk want. Cooler heads need to prevail.
Pheremone covered plastic flakes will probably work as well as the "sterile" meditaranean fruit flies Jerry "Governor Moonbeam" Brown released in California to combat the fruit fly problem. They were fertile. It got worse. I wonder if the Governor of Illinois is going to get himself a nickname over this one.
Yeah! let's have them play American Football, and Hockey. Soccer,(aka football in Europe) is so dull! How about boxing and pro rasslin'? The Bot's gonna lay the smack down on your rudy-poo candy ass, If ya smell what the bot is cooking!
The worst that will happen is that Microsoft will be ordered to pay a fine. Compared to the company's net worth, it will be a pittence. Microsoft will then continue business as usual. Anti-trust laws have no teeth. The white collar criminals who violate them never do any time. Taking a million in fines from a billionare is not much punishment.
Dvorak, and his bird cage liner, PC Magazine, are nothing but cheerleeders for Microsoft and Intel. Did I call it bird cage liner? I'm sorry. Putting this at the bottom of a cage where a bird might see it is cruelty to animals even if they can't read.
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
They can now say we are in a time of war. A perpetual war against a boogeyman enemy that is everywhere and nowhere at once, terrorism. The old boogeyman was communism, and the old war, the cold war. Any law they pass now is "in a manner to be prescribed by law." The constitution and bill of rights are ultimately pieces of parchment. They will not protect you. The Philosopher, Thamas Hobbes once said that the people have what ever rights that the state chooses to extend them. Nothing more.
America isn't Nazi Germany, It's the new Roman Empire. I Just havent figured out if Bush is Caligula or Nero yet.
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Wow! you were still able to read my comment after it got modded down. Considering the content of most of the stuff with -1 scores, putting my comments there is virtual censorship. It seems anyone who says anything negative about something the mods like is modded down as a troll or as flamebait. If you can't write about something that makes you angry, and use emotional language, how can you communicate? If all you are allowed to do on these boards is sing the praises of the articles you read, and criticism isn't allowed, then they serve little purpose, and you might as well post as anonymous coward. Thanks for actully responding to my comments, unlike the thought police mods who just try to kill them.
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You were misled. You belived the Hype. NPR is a bunch of ivory tower college professor types who think you should have to pay tuition to read what they write. I hope somebody DDOSes their site, or hacks it so it links to something else entirely.
Yes, you could do what ever you want with a gun, but if you did something illegal, you would be prosecuted. What does that have to do with the Tivo? Nothing whatsoever. You are a troll, and anonymous cowardly troll to boot.
I'd like to try Lindows, but you have to cough up $99 to join their insiders program, and sign a non-disclosure agreement, so I haven't. Lycoris is another distro aimed at the desktop for people who only know windows, and you can download it free. http://www.lycoris.org/
Use one of these embedded phones, and everyone will think you are talking to yourself, or the voices in your head. Pretty soon, you'll wind up committed to a loony bin! Besides, with a transmitter that close to your brain, the saucer people will be able to read and control your mind, and a tinfoil hat would keep the phone from working.
Maybe the people at Tivo still get it that crossing your paying customers will cost you your paying customers, so they do not harass the hackers. Besides, If I buy a Tivo, it's my personal property. I have the right to use it as I see fit, no matter what the MPAA or television networks say. By the way, If I share my recordings of free broadcast TV how is that stealing?
Emulators have never worked well on any platform. A lot of programs just have to be run in their native environment. It does not surprise me at all that wal-mart backed down from it's previous claim. There will be too much microsoft software that just won't work with Lindows OS. I would like to try Lindows, but I won't cough up $99 just to test a beta. Anyway, emulators blow.
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Yes. Drawing on experience is an infringement. Let's all go back to living in caves, and using stone tools. Those technologies are in the public domain, but I think fire and the wheel are still protected by patent. We'll have to stop using them.
Maybe they'll figure out that Pearl Jam and the whole Seattle thing are so ten years ago, and sucked then, too, so they'll stop manufacuting Pearl Jam clones like Creed and Nickelback, and Moby, and Staind, and the other ten zillion of them! If life is as bad as these whining bitches make it out to be, why don't they just pull a Kurt Cobain? Did you ever hear the Ballad of Kurt Cobain? Duh dah dunt, da duh da duh da dunt, Pow!
That would take a revolution, and not in just one country. Maybe it's time for that to happen again. Maybe we should read the Declaration of Independence, and contemplate whether what Jefferson wrote then describes what we have now. Here is a link.http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters _of_freedom/declaration/declaration_transcription. html
Broadcast TV is free, unlike cable and dish, which offer only more crap, not better programming. Besides, if a nerd has to choose between the idiot box, and broadband because of budget constraints, broadband is the must have and who needs the idiot box.
As my grandpa used to say, "I saw a UF, but I couldn't quite make out any O."
Hewlett-Compaqard-Bells, Gateways, E-machines, Dells, and the like are big turds. Anyone in the know will buy a white box, or build it themselves. That way, you at least get a big enough power supply to drive all of your toys, and components that aren't trashed by a minor thunderstorm. The big computer companies view their customers as a cheap commodity, and are building machines like American cars in the '70s. Planned obsolescence. More people are finding this out every day, and kicking them to the curb.
From the article..."RCMP spokesman Corporal Benoît Desjardins said jamming is an important part of the security measures for both events. "The RCMP must ensure the safety and security of those attending," he said yesterday. "It could be used, for example, if there was threat of a detonation of some type of a remote-controlled device. We could jam the frequencies to make sure nobody could send a signal to that bomb." He did not know, however, how the jamming would affect cell phones or commercial radio transmissions.
If they jam to prevent such a detonation, they may cause the very detonation they hoped to prevent. "he did not know, however," This is the real problem. The authorities arond the globe are running around like chickens with their heads cut off from the specter of terrorism. This is the very choas Bin Laden and his ilk want. Cooler heads need to prevail.
What the show really needs is that bud light mini fridge. That would rule!
Yes indeed! The Rockem Sockem robots. Someone should make those again. They were fun.
Pheremone covered plastic flakes will probably work as well as the "sterile" meditaranean fruit flies Jerry "Governor Moonbeam" Brown released in California to combat the fruit fly problem. They were fertile. It got worse. I wonder if the Governor of Illinois is going to get himself a nickname over this one.
Breaker, breaker. I saw some smokeys. They even had a bear in the air
10-4 good buddy! Did you see a beaver?
Negatory! I just saw bears. Give me your 20?
I only got two fives and some loose change!
The difference in a nutshell. Mac - Working PC - This application has caused an illegal operation, and will be shut down... Does that paint a picture?
Yeah! let's have them play American Football, and Hockey. Soccer,(aka football in Europe) is so dull! How about boxing and pro rasslin'? The Bot's gonna lay the smack down on your rudy-poo candy ass, If ya smell what the bot is cooking!
The worst that will happen is that Microsoft will be ordered to pay a fine. Compared to the company's net worth, it will be a pittence. Microsoft will then continue business as usual. Anti-trust laws have no teeth. The white collar criminals who violate them never do any time. Taking a million in fines from a billionare is not much punishment.
Dvorak, and his bird cage liner, PC Magazine, are nothing but cheerleeders for Microsoft and Intel. Did I call it bird cage liner? I'm sorry. Putting this at the bottom of a cage where a bird might see it is cruelty to animals even if they can't read.
Oops. A typo. That's Thomas Hobbes.
Amendment III No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. They can now say we are in a time of war. A perpetual war against a boogeyman enemy that is everywhere and nowhere at once, terrorism. The old boogeyman was communism, and the old war, the cold war. Any law they pass now is "in a manner to be prescribed by law." The constitution and bill of rights are ultimately pieces of parchment. They will not protect you. The Philosopher, Thamas Hobbes once said that the people have what ever rights that the state chooses to extend them. Nothing more.
America isn't Nazi Germany, It's the new Roman Empire. I Just havent figured out if Bush is Caligula or Nero yet.
Wow! you were still able to read my comment after it got modded down. Considering the content of most of the stuff with -1 scores, putting my comments there is virtual censorship. It seems anyone who says anything negative about something the mods like is modded down as a troll or as flamebait. If you can't write about something that makes you angry, and use emotional language, how can you communicate? If all you are allowed to do on these boards is sing the praises of the articles you read, and criticism isn't allowed, then they serve little purpose, and you might as well post as anonymous coward. Thanks for actully responding to my comments, unlike the thought police mods who just try to kill them.
You were misled. You belived the Hype. NPR is a bunch of ivory tower college professor types who think you should have to pay tuition to read what they write. I hope somebody DDOSes their site, or hacks it so it links to something else entirely.
Yes, you could do what ever you want with a gun, but if you did something illegal, you would be prosecuted. What does that have to do with the Tivo? Nothing whatsoever. You are a troll, and anonymous cowardly troll to boot.
I'd like to try Lindows, but you have to cough up $99 to join their insiders program, and sign a non-disclosure agreement, so I haven't. Lycoris is another distro aimed at the desktop for people who only know windows, and you can download it free. http://www.lycoris.org/
Use one of these embedded phones, and everyone will think you are talking to yourself, or the voices in your head. Pretty soon, you'll wind up committed to a loony bin! Besides, with a transmitter that close to your brain, the saucer people will be able to read and control your mind, and a tinfoil hat would keep the phone from working.
Maybe the people at Tivo still get it that crossing your paying customers will cost you your paying customers, so they do not harass the hackers. Besides, If I buy a Tivo, it's my personal property. I have the right to use it as I see fit, no matter what the MPAA or television networks say. By the way, If I share my recordings of free broadcast TV how is that stealing?
Emulators have never worked well on any platform. A lot of programs just have to be run in their native environment. It does not surprise me at all that wal-mart backed down from it's previous claim. There will be too much microsoft software that just won't work with Lindows OS. I would like to try Lindows, but I won't cough up $99 just to test a beta. Anyway, emulators blow.