And not more than 1/4 of them ever will. The other 3/4 wouldn't buy it if they couldn't get it free. This, despite whiny software industry protestations to the contrary, does not constitute lost revenues. But it makes good copy. Me, I hope they get their way--locked down DRM so their stuff can't be copied, with the death penalty for violators. I'll bet the alternatives get a damn sight better, and GIMP eats Photoshop's lunch.
Not trolling--a real question. If you decide to whack iPhoto, then change your mind, do you have to do a complete reinstall to get it back, or can you just copy it from your install CD?
The republic is too important to leave in the hands of easily manipulated bits. A paper fallback record is the bare minimum of prudence when introducing computers into the process of electing our leaders. Without it, there can be no confidence of legitimacy of any future government, especially given the high-profile politicking of senior executives of voting machine companies.
And even if you decline to use a credit card, if you keep the phone turned on, it isn't that hard to make a pretty good educated guess as to your identity from where it's been. And there's always the possibility that your cash transaction buying a prepaid phone has been recorded by a surveillance camera.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed, though, that there are pretty strong financial incentives for making it easy for TPTB to associate a prepaid phone with a real person: bonuses for credit card payments (as you mentioned) are popular, as are substantial ($50 or more) mail-in rebates.
Just like Cisco and Yahoo helped with custom firmware and consulting services to give the PRC government the tools to oppress her people online, other American companies will bend over backwards to help with this. If there is any justice, the senior executives and people in the field who assist with these projects will be tried for crimes against humanity and hanged.
Around 1999, I stopped upgrading Quicken and never bought Money. Why? Because I have no interest in paying for software and then being subjected to in-program spam like banner ads and pointers to "helpful" products and services (for which the programs get a cut.
I currently keep my records in spreadsheets and on paper. I would use Gnucash, but its support for check printing leaves a bit to be desired (can only print one check at a time on a sheet of three).
Whether or not you have money makes no difference as you are not the one behind the suit infact most likely you are not even involved.
If you really believe that whether you have money or not has no influence on whether a DA prosecutes a criminal on your behalf, you need to spend a bit more time in the real world!
The page you linked up only shows donations by users registered on SourceForge. I donated, and do not show up there, not having so registered. There are probably others. While the donations not shown may not be enough to put his kids through college, they probably provide a bit of beer money.
As far as willingness to pay goes, I am a thousand times more likely to give money to a programmer that makes something I use and just asks for it, as opposed to nagware or crippleware, which I will either do without or find another alternative for every time.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act prohibits telemarketing calls to numbers for which the subscriber would bear a cost for the telemarketing call. Here's an article by the telemarketing "industry" whining about the law as it relates to number portability.
They already charge it--now they'll have to say so in their advertising, instead of luring customers with a low come-on price then loading it up with $10 worth of phony taxes and dubious fees every month.
Please. Disney practically owns the government, as evidenced by the fact that copyright gets extended every time Mickey Mouse is about to enter the public domain. This is a case of one hand washing the other.
I always used it more as a safety valve--I never intentionally avoid canceling, but it's nice to know that if I were to, that the service loses the ability to charge. This is particularly important with sites like (ironically enough) Consumer Reports, who charge a ridiculous fee for one-time access, but a small monthly subscription fee. They hope you'll forget, and will be able to keep charging forever. (Why Consumer Reports engages in this kind of business practice merits another discussion.)
AMEX used to have this--I wonder if they killed it because too many of their merchants didn't like getting stiffed on recurring billing services. I'll have to get a card from Citibank now--it's great not having to worry about signing up for some service and forgetting to cancel after the end of the month then having them hit the card again and again. At least until Citibank drops the service, too.
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Thanks :).
If I worked for Red Hat, I'd ask Yahoo to borrow the goatse image to replace the logo. Wouldn't have to worry about too many installs then, I imagine.
It's lawyer-speak. They want to convey it's malicious, but don't want them to open themselves up to a libel suit. Yes, it's dumb.
And not more than 1/4 of them ever will. The other 3/4 wouldn't buy it if they couldn't get it free. This, despite whiny software industry protestations to the contrary, does not constitute lost revenues. But it makes good copy. Me, I hope they get their way--locked down DRM so their stuff can't be copied, with the death penalty for violators. I'll bet the alternatives get a damn sight better, and GIMP eats Photoshop's lunch.
Thanks! So some of the apps are bundled, and it seems like Pacifist functions (sort of) like 98Lite did for Windows.
Not trolling--a real question. If you decide to whack iPhoto, then change your mind, do you have to do a complete reinstall to get it back, or can you just copy it from your install CD?
The republic is too important to leave in the hands of easily manipulated bits. A paper fallback record is the bare minimum of prudence when introducing computers into the process of electing our leaders. Without it, there can be no confidence of legitimacy of any future government, especially given the high-profile politicking of senior executives of voting machine companies.
It's not just in China--Cisco is building in wiretap capability into its new routers ("lawful interception").
I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed, though, that there are pretty strong financial incentives for making it easy for TPTB to associate a prepaid phone with a real person: bonuses for credit card payments (as you mentioned) are popular, as are substantial ($50 or more) mail-in rebates.
Just like Cisco and Yahoo helped with custom firmware and consulting services to give the PRC government the tools to oppress her people online, other American companies will bend over backwards to help with this. If there is any justice, the senior executives and people in the field who assist with these projects will be tried for crimes against humanity and hanged.
I currently keep my records in spreadsheets and on paper. I would use Gnucash, but its support for check printing leaves a bit to be desired (can only print one check at a time on a sheet of three).
Wow--a whole hundred bucks. As the MPAA says piracy is costing them "billions and billions," I'd want a bigger cut before turning rat.
Sorry :).
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If you really believe that whether you have money or not has no influence on whether a DA prosecutes a criminal on your behalf, you need to spend a bit more time in the real world!
Three words: First. Sale. Doctrine.
If that be true, why do they bother writing Linux drivers at all?
As far as willingness to pay goes, I am a thousand times more likely to give money to a programmer that makes something I use and just asks for it, as opposed to nagware or crippleware, which I will either do without or find another alternative for every time.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act prohibits telemarketing calls to numbers for which the subscriber would bear a cost for the telemarketing call. Here's an article by the telemarketing "industry" whining about the law as it relates to number portability.
They already charge it--now they'll have to say so in their advertising, instead of luring customers with a low come-on price then loading it up with $10 worth of phony taxes and dubious fees every month.
Yup, for the first year. Hard to tell how much of a "punishment" this is for McAfee.
Please. Disney practically owns the government, as evidenced by the fact that copyright gets extended every time Mickey Mouse is about to enter the public domain. This is a case of one hand washing the other.
I always used it more as a safety valve--I never intentionally avoid canceling, but it's nice to know that if I were to, that the service loses the ability to charge. This is particularly important with sites like (ironically enough) Consumer Reports, who charge a ridiculous fee for one-time access, but a small monthly subscription fee. They hope you'll forget, and will be able to keep charging forever. (Why Consumer Reports engages in this kind of business practice merits another discussion.)
AMEX used to have this--I wonder if they killed it because too many of their merchants didn't like getting stiffed on recurring billing services. I'll have to get a card from Citibank now--it's great not having to worry about signing up for some service and forgetting to cancel after the end of the month then having them hit the card again and again. At least until Citibank drops the service, too.