I don't understand why so many people are bashing the Zune. I love mine! It is the perfect size to shim up an old table I have in the den with a short leg.
The software industry has really muddied the waters with EULAs and crap like that, and it is a shame. The recording industry other than things like iTunes sell a tangible commodity: Plastic discs. The vapor part, the content of the plastic discs, comes along with the ride. No matter what legalese mumbo-jumbo you may have heard bantered about, you are buying the media.
When you buy software from Bill Gates and the like, they tell you that you are buying a license to use the content of the media, and the media is just along for the ride. Before Microsoft, no one ever thought of it that way. That way is silly when you think about it. You can't buy a pound of or a bushel full of vapor.
Did a former employer do you wrong? Are you disgruntled? If hacking websites is this easy, hijack theirs so it points to something like goatse. That'll show em!
Wormholes are an invention of sci-fi writers to make stories of interstellar and intergalactic travel, which are impractical, seem plausible. Just because you imagine a thing doesn't make it real. Most of the conventions of sci-fi are as unreal as the magic in fantasy, and always will be. Sorry fanboys. Wormholes are not real.
Since Microsoft started pushing IE7 on XP users as a "critical update", all kinds of people who must log into intranets and VPNs from home for work have lost their ability to do so, unless they roll back to IE6. Sadly, Vista users can't do that. Vista, so far is worse than Windows ME. We didn't need it. We didn't want it, and the computer capable of running it well is still science-fiction.
My new Lenovo 3000 had the same problem, and not only that. Their power managment software is incompatible with Vista. My brand new computer is slower than the dinosaur HP laptop it replaced.
I am a pro in the computer industry, and I feel like a noob because the names and locations of everything have changed. I have to learn all over again. If businesses adopt this turkey, the learning curve will cost billions in lost productivity. Office 2007 is just as bad, if not worse.
SDTV does not mean NTSC. If you had read previous posts, maybe you would understand that. Even at Slashdot, things have to be dumbed down for the masses. Not all digital is HDTV, nor will it ever be. Only analog is eventually going away. Duh!
OTA is not free. Advertisers pay for it instead of end users. They have to pay for access to us. Subscriptions fees are chump change next to advertising. OTA isn't going anywhere.
The first mistake they made was calling him "captain". Only heroes get to be called that. Super villains are always called "doctor".
In the new version, The diabolical Doctor Copyright locks up ideas as property, stealing them from the public domain so no one but he and his already outrageously rich corporate cronies can use them, and profit from them. Here is a lime the first issue...
Fools! All these ideas are now my "intellectual property". If you want to see these pictures, hear these songs or read these writings you will have to pay, and pay dearly! Mwah hah ha hah!
That will be an accurate comic about the nature of copyright.
It has been well established that it costs the labels less than $1 to press and package a disc. Also, anyone with a computer and a good sound card can be a recording studio these days. Even if the recording rackets stopped ripping off the artists and paid them their fair share, there would still be no legitimate reason to charge more that $5 for a CD. I predict that they will fool no one with these ridiculous claims. Don't Buy CDs!
String theory should be renamed bong theory. They must have come up with it while they were high. I can observe three dimensions: Height, width and depth. You can call time the fourth even though only the present can be observed, but any beyond four make no sense. They are something someone tripping would think they have "discovered" until they come down from their high.
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I don't understand why so many people are bashing the Zune. I love mine! It is the perfect size to shim up an old table I have in the den with a short leg.
Manufactured garbage and the redneck mall go together like a hand and glove. Dell will be right at home.
The software industry has really muddied the waters with EULAs and crap like that, and it is a shame. The recording industry other than things like iTunes sell a tangible commodity: Plastic discs. The vapor part, the content of the plastic discs, comes along with the ride. No matter what legalese mumbo-jumbo you may have heard bantered about, you are buying the media. When you buy software from Bill Gates and the like, they tell you that you are buying a license to use the content of the media, and the media is just along for the ride. Before Microsoft, no one ever thought of it that way. That way is silly when you think about it. You can't buy a pound of or a bushel full of vapor.
Read all about it here.
And from beyond the grave, Hitler is bringing libel suits against anyone calling him a Nazi.
Did a former employer do you wrong? Are you disgruntled? If hacking websites is this easy, hijack theirs so it points to something like goatse. That'll show em!
Does Netcraft confirm this?
No they didn't. His little brother's name is Phil.
First they pee in out cokes for a laugh, and now this? Those bastards!
There is absolutely nothing in Windows Vista, AKA Windows Me II, that anyone should emulate.
Wormholes are an invention of sci-fi writers to make stories of interstellar and intergalactic travel, which are impractical, seem plausible. Just because you imagine a thing doesn't make it real. Most of the conventions of sci-fi are as unreal as the magic in fantasy, and always will be. Sorry fanboys. Wormholes are not real.
New Coke was a Chinese joke.
That's an urban myth. There is almost as much corn syrup in Mexican coke as US coke.
Not only are they ripping off Microsoft, they are ripping off Disney. Mickey and Minnie in Santa suits are bringing you pirated Windows Vista.
Since Microsoft started pushing IE7 on XP users as a "critical update", all kinds of people who must log into intranets and VPNs from home for work have lost their ability to do so, unless they roll back to IE6. Sadly, Vista users can't do that. Vista, so far is worse than Windows ME. We didn't need it. We didn't want it, and the computer capable of running it well is still science-fiction.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Oh, and while we're at it, Wolf! Woooooooooooooolf!
My new Lenovo 3000 had the same problem, and not only that. Their power managment software is incompatible with Vista. My brand new computer is slower than the dinosaur HP laptop it replaced. I am a pro in the computer industry, and I feel like a noob because the names and locations of everything have changed. I have to learn all over again. If businesses adopt this turkey, the learning curve will cost billions in lost productivity. Office 2007 is just as bad, if not worse.
Nothing on OTA? You must not like sports. All the big events are still there.
SDTV does not mean NTSC. If you had read previous posts, maybe you would understand that. Even at Slashdot, things have to be dumbed down for the masses. Not all digital is HDTV, nor will it ever be. Only analog is eventually going away. Duh!
OTA is not free. Advertisers pay for it instead of end users. They have to pay for access to us. Subscriptions fees are chump change next to advertising. OTA isn't going anywhere.
The first mistake they made was calling him "captain". Only heroes get to be called that. Super villains are always called "doctor". In the new version, The diabolical Doctor Copyright locks up ideas as property, stealing them from the public domain so no one but he and his already outrageously rich corporate cronies can use them, and profit from them. Here is a lime the first issue... Fools! All these ideas are now my "intellectual property". If you want to see these pictures, hear these songs or read these writings you will have to pay, and pay dearly! Mwah hah ha hah! That will be an accurate comic about the nature of copyright.
It has been well established that it costs the labels less than $1 to press and package a disc. Also, anyone with a computer and a good sound card can be a recording studio these days. Even if the recording rackets stopped ripping off the artists and paid them their fair share, there would still be no legitimate reason to charge more that $5 for a CD. I predict that they will fool no one with these ridiculous claims. Don't Buy CDs!
When asked why we need a permanent moon base, NASA officials had this to say.
String theory should be renamed bong theory. They must have come up with it while they were high. I can observe three dimensions: Height, width and depth. You can call time the fourth even though only the present can be observed, but any beyond four make no sense. They are something someone tripping would think they have "discovered" until they come down from their high.