Actually yes they can. The rules for it are a bit convoluted, but what it amounts to is that as long as it's made clear cash won't be accepted prior to any services, they can reject it as a payment.
That's when I say, "If you won't take my cash, you just lost my custom," and walk out.
You know, you don't HAVE to buy stuff. It's not a constitutional mandate or anything...
...the more of your former customers will slip through your fingers.
Fucking nazi scum. What's next, blood samples when you buy the CDs? A lien on your firstborn?
Even if this does make it to marketplace (and I very much doubt it will) it will die a slow, twisty death as its proponents tell us how much better it is and the rest of us stick with existing hardware.
How will this work with existing hardware, by the way? Are you going to force a new format down our throats? MD, DCC, DAT, all miserable failures. DVD-A and SACD are gaining a tiny amount of ground, but I don't see much of a future for either apart from extreme "golden ears" audiophile applications. That tells me that most people are happy with CD quality audio, so you won't be able to sell them the new format on the basis of enhanced quality.
So will this product have a tag line like, "The same music you already paid for on CD, but with fewer playback and copying options than ever!"
You people just don't get it anymore. Why won't someone put the RIAA out of our misery? Please?
I'd love to ditch Windows and move my PC over the rainbow to Linux, but dammit, there are no known drivers for my wireless card! Will someone PLEASE code some drivers for the D-Link DWL-G510 card? I'd do it myself, but the last time I did any programming was back in high school on an Apple//e, and methinks things have advanced a bit since Applesoft BASIC was the standard.
I'd buy a new Mac but I just built the PC and there's no chance in hell of my convincing the wife to let me spend MORE money now.
I could see having an A/V out so you could plug in to a handy TV. Assuming it could handle DivX, Xvid and 3vix video I'd buy one in a hot second.
But it would probably only work with Apple's variant of MPEG4, and require AAC audio. That would eliminate 99.99999999% of what's out there.
I don't know what use colour would be for the iPod, apart from simple colours for the display. It would be nice to be able to have yellow text on a blue background (which is worlds easier for me to read than black on white). OR they could have a more complex (like a GBA) screen which could show a visualiser like iTunes does while the music plays.
So let's see...a 60gb HD with a video adaptor (could use the same video adaptor they use for the iBooks and PowerBooks and eMac) and a simple colour display...for $500? I could swing that, if they released it. IF, and that's a pretty big if, knowing Jobs.
Thanks. I can't seem to get anything to come up on their hardware support search. I put in "d-link" in the free search box and it just brought me back to the main search page with no results.
Anyway, I can't use my cell phone in my own house, which rules out using it as a land line replacement. I can barely get decent reception in my back yard.
It's FUD because it's critical of Linux. Trust me, I got the same kind of bashing on Apple board when I was critical of MacOS X after it first came out. People with unhealthy attachments to their OS of choice tend to be pretty unpleasent to infidels...erm, critics.
One of the great things about this season (at least the last half dozen eps or so) has been the sense of continuity. One episode leads into the next, and yet there is an episodic feel to things. It's almost as if they've been studying Babylon 5...
Of course, they're just going to go back to the disjointed episodic system after this season is over, but as someone else said, it's better than nothing.
I'm not worried about the show moving to Friday night. X-Files got a huge boost from Friday night, and it might be just what Enterprise needs to get its numbers up.
These guys are nuts. And SDI was/is a good idea. Unless they're talking about the movies, which, IMO, aren't really that great. I mean, the first one was fun, but I could have lived without the others.
And talk about awful? Don't even get me started on the books. Crap, utter crap to a one, with the possible exception of Zahn's original trilogy.
Speaking as one whose eyes are VERY sensitive to bright light (such as that found here in SoCal) I am all for global dimming.
The only problem I have with the theory is this: If it's getting darker, why do I still squint while driving my way to work under cloudless, pristine blue skies? Shouldn't Los Angeles, that allegedly smog-clogged city be darker rather than lighter? Would t'were so. Every day I arrive at work with a blazing headache, my eyes feeling like they're going to pop from the pressure.
It's makes me a doubter. I am not a scientist, but I can see with my eyes that things are getting brighter, not dimmer, and I don't need a degree for that. Does anyone ever do any actual fact-checking, or does ever wild theory that sounds good get posted?
Wow! As much as I loved the cel shading in Wind Waker, I'm glad to see Nintendo taking a different approach for the next title. Part of Nintendo's problem is their image of being a kiddy game company. Games like Wind Waker, though VERY impressive visually, only help to cement that image in peoples' minds.
There is no way in hell anyone's going to look at this new game (assuming those aren't pre-rendered shots) and say, "That's for kids! I don't want to play THAT!"
You seem not to understand due process. It is the means by which the legal system handles legal challenges.
The SCO suit is only progressing because a judge somewhere decided that their complaint has merit. It's not an "abuse" of the legal system. It IS a legitimate complaint.
Since WE know (or at least hope) the claim to be without merit, there is much to be gained here. Should this work its way through the courts there WILL BE ESTABLISHED LEGAL PRECEDENCE should this nonsense come up again.
If, on the other hand, you have a facist DoJ which arbitrarily (and I might add illegally) stops a complaint which has already been accepted, you have no legal precedence, and the next time this comes up we'll have to go through the whole circus again.
Does that help? I realise actual KNOWLEDGE might be hurting your brain, but it's time you realised that the world is a little more complicated than you were taught to believe.
Unfortunately, there's little chance of getting a President next term who might push the Justice Dept to stop this scam...
So you WANT a facist justice department, is that it? One which doesn't permit legal actions to proceed normally, which decides from on high which it will permit to continue and which it will stick the knife in?
Or do you want a justice department which recognises the importance of due process and letting legal actions run their course?
You can't have both, but you've got the latter right now.
I recently built a PC (first ever, w00t!) and had my choice of CPUs. I decided on the Athlon XP 2500+ and I have not had any reason to regret it. It's FAST-much faster than my wife's 2.6ghz Celeron (the AMD runs at 1.83ghz). I know Celerons are crippled, but I didn't think there'd be this much disparity.
The next CPU I buy will be an Athon 64. It'll probably be a year before I do, but that's OK. I will never buy an Intel CPU, not because I hate Intel (which I don't, honest) but because I see AMD as being the real innovator and leader. Intel is copying AMD's 64 bit instruction set. Love 'em or hate 'em, MS certified their 64 bit version of Windows for AMD.
I fully expect Intel to come out with a 64 bit chip and try to pass it off as an Intel first innovation, but I'm hopeful that AMD's lead will keep that lie from taking hold.
I can't wait for this (assuming they allow US viewers to access the service) because two of my favourite BBC shows, Dead Ringers and Red Cap, NEVER seem to show up on Bit Torrent.
Given that I'm not going to have ANY cable service after the 11th, I'm all for anything that lets me keep on watching my fave shows
GraphicConverter BitTorrent DragThing WindowSha de FruitMenu Toast MacTheRipper Latest Surfer's Serials (I only use it for medicinal purposes) Hotline (yes, I still use it occasionally) ICQ MT NewsWatcher MP3 Rage Mail Siphon II
And a bunch of other stuff, too. CMMs and the like. I just can't think what any of it is. I tend to delete or prevent the installation of the iApps, excepting iTunes, mostly because I just couldn't give a shit, and anyway iPhoto is slower that molasses running uphill in January. No, really, it is. I've checked.)
On my new WinXP machine I installed:
as many security updates as it had IE6 update SP1a 7Zip WinAmp 5 iTunes (can never have too many MP3 apps, right?) Mail Siphon II (which is apparently no longer publically available for Windows?) CuteFTP
And again, stuff I can't recall right off hand. Mostly drivers for the MoBo & video card, as well as games (Serious Sam 1&2, Deus Ex, Far Cry).
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That's when I say, "If you won't take my cash, you just lost my custom," and walk out.
You know, you don't HAVE to buy stuff. It's not a constitutional mandate or anything...
Yep. I was in Fry's today and saw a bunch of portable CD players and my first thought was, "They still sell those?"
...the more of your former customers will slip through your fingers.
Fucking nazi scum. What's next, blood samples when you buy the CDs? A lien on your firstborn?
Even if this does make it to marketplace (and I very much doubt it will) it will die a slow, twisty death as its proponents tell us how much better it is and the rest of us stick with existing hardware.
How will this work with existing hardware, by the way? Are you going to force a new format down our throats? MD, DCC, DAT, all miserable failures. DVD-A and SACD are gaining a tiny amount of ground, but I don't see much of a future for either apart from extreme "golden ears" audiophile applications. That tells me that most people are happy with CD quality audio, so you won't be able to sell them the new format on the basis of enhanced quality.
So will this product have a tag line like, "The same music you already paid for on CD, but with fewer playback and copying options than ever!"
You people just don't get it anymore. Why won't someone put the RIAA out of our misery? Please?
I'd love to ditch Windows and move my PC over the rainbow to Linux, but dammit, there are no known drivers for my wireless card! Will someone PLEASE code some drivers for the D-Link DWL-G510 card? I'd do it myself, but the last time I did any programming was back in high school on an Apple //e, and methinks things have advanced a bit since Applesoft BASIC was the standard.
I'd buy a new Mac but I just built the PC and there's no chance in hell of my convincing the wife to let me spend MORE money now.
I could see having an A/V out so you could plug in to a handy TV. Assuming it could handle DivX, Xvid and 3vix video I'd buy one in a hot second.
But it would probably only work with Apple's variant of MPEG4, and require AAC audio. That would eliminate 99.99999999% of what's out there.
I don't know what use colour would be for the iPod, apart from simple colours for the display. It would be nice to be able to have yellow text on a blue background (which is worlds easier for me to read than black on white). OR they could have a more complex (like a GBA) screen which could show a visualiser like iTunes does while the music plays.
So let's see...a 60gb HD with a video adaptor (could use the same video adaptor they use for the iBooks and PowerBooks and eMac) and a simple colour display...for $500? I could swing that, if they released it. IF, and that's a pretty big if, knowing Jobs.
Thanks. I can't seem to get anything to come up on their hardware support search. I put in "d-link" in the free search box and it just brought me back to the main search page with no results.
Any suggestions?
Um...
Anyway, I can't use my cell phone in my own house, which rules out using it as a land line replacement. I can barely get decent reception in my back yard.
I'd rather not have the tether anyway.
One thing that's holding me back on linux is the less-than-stellar wireless support. Keeps my PC on Windows XP when I'd rather be using linux.
How is Mandrake 10's wireless support? Can it work with a D-Link DWL-G510 card? Can it be made to work?
Uh...guys...that was meant to be FUNNY, not informative.
Oh well, whatever.
How long before slightly edited copies of that MPEG are found on various X-Files type web sites as "Genuine UFO Footage"?
Saw it once ages ago, had to fight to stay awake.
Now I can FINALLY get a film to help me during my bouts of insomnia! Huzzah!
It's FUD because it's critical of Linux. Trust me, I got the same kind of bashing on Apple board when I was critical of MacOS X after it first came out. People with unhealthy attachments to their OS of choice tend to be pretty unpleasent to infidels...erm, critics.
One of the great things about this season (at least the last half dozen eps or so) has been the sense of continuity. One episode leads into the next, and yet there is an episodic feel to things. It's almost as if they've been studying Babylon 5...
Of course, they're just going to go back to the disjointed episodic system after this season is over, but as someone else said, it's better than nothing.
I'm not worried about the show moving to Friday night. X-Files got a huge boost from Friday night, and it might be just what Enterprise needs to get its numbers up.
These guys are nuts. And SDI was/is a good idea. Unless they're talking about the movies, which, IMO, aren't really that great. I mean, the first one was fun, but I could have lived without the others.
And talk about awful? Don't even get me started on the books. Crap, utter crap to a one, with the possible exception of Zahn's original trilogy.
And Microsoft sucks.
Speaking as one whose eyes are VERY sensitive to bright light (such as that found here in SoCal) I am all for global dimming.
The only problem I have with the theory is this: If it's getting darker, why do I still squint while driving my way to work under cloudless, pristine blue skies? Shouldn't Los Angeles, that allegedly smog-clogged city be darker rather than lighter? Would t'were so. Every day I arrive at work with a blazing headache, my eyes feeling like they're going to pop from the pressure.
It's makes me a doubter. I am not a scientist, but I can see with my eyes that things are getting brighter, not dimmer, and I don't need a degree for that. Does anyone ever do any actual fact-checking, or does ever wild theory that sounds good get posted?
Wow! As much as I loved the cel shading in Wind Waker, I'm glad to see Nintendo taking a different approach for the next title. Part of Nintendo's problem is their image of being a kiddy game company. Games like Wind Waker, though VERY impressive visually, only help to cement that image in peoples' minds.
There is no way in hell anyone's going to look at this new game (assuming those aren't pre-rendered shots) and say, "That's for kids! I don't want to play THAT!"
Dear pinhead,
You seem not to understand due process. It is the means by which the legal system handles legal challenges.
The SCO suit is only progressing because a judge somewhere decided that their complaint has merit. It's not an "abuse" of the legal system. It IS a legitimate complaint.
Since WE know (or at least hope) the claim to be without merit, there is much to be gained here. Should this work its way through the courts there WILL BE ESTABLISHED LEGAL PRECEDENCE should this nonsense come up again.
If, on the other hand, you have a facist DoJ which arbitrarily (and I might add illegally) stops a complaint which has already been accepted, you have no legal precedence, and the next time this comes up we'll have to go through the whole circus again.
Does that help? I realise actual KNOWLEDGE might be hurting your brain, but it's time you realised that the world is a little more complicated than you were taught to believe.
So you WANT a facist justice department, is that it? One which doesn't permit legal actions to proceed normally, which decides from on high which it will permit to continue and which it will stick the knife in?
Or do you want a justice department which recognises the importance of due process and letting legal actions run their course?
You can't have both, but you've got the latter right now.
Flamebait? Why?
I recently built a PC (first ever, w00t!) and had my choice of CPUs. I decided on the Athlon XP 2500+ and I have not had any reason to regret it. It's FAST-much faster than my wife's 2.6ghz Celeron (the AMD runs at 1.83ghz). I know Celerons are crippled, but I didn't think there'd be this much disparity.
The next CPU I buy will be an Athon 64. It'll probably be a year before I do, but that's OK. I will never buy an Intel CPU, not because I hate Intel (which I don't, honest) but because I see AMD as being the real innovator and leader. Intel is copying AMD's 64 bit instruction set. Love 'em or hate 'em, MS certified their 64 bit version of Windows for AMD.
I fully expect Intel to come out with a 64 bit chip and try to pass it off as an Intel first innovation, but I'm hopeful that AMD's lead will keep that lie from taking hold.
But...but...but..why can't I stare at her chest? Just a little longer, please?
(I actually do like the show though...)
I can't wait for this (assuming they allow US viewers to access the service) because two of my favourite BBC shows, Dead Ringers and Red Cap, NEVER seem to show up on Bit Torrent.
Given that I'm not going to have ANY cable service after the 11th, I'm all for anything that lets me keep on watching my fave shows
Can we blame them for the rolling blackouts? ;)
GraphicConvertera de
BitTorrent
DragThing
WindowSh
FruitMenu
Toast
MacTheRipper
Latest Surfer's Serials (I only use it for medicinal purposes)
Hotline (yes, I still use it occasionally)
ICQ
MT NewsWatcher
MP3 Rage
Mail Siphon II
And a bunch of other stuff, too. CMMs and the like. I just can't think what any of it is. I tend to delete or prevent the installation of the iApps, excepting iTunes, mostly because I just couldn't give a shit, and anyway iPhoto is slower that molasses running uphill in January. No, really, it is. I've checked.)
On my new WinXP machine I installed:
as many security updates as it had
IE6 update
SP1a
7Zip
WinAmp 5
iTunes (can never have too many MP3 apps, right?)
Mail Siphon II (which is apparently no longer publically available for Windows?)
CuteFTP
And again, stuff I can't recall right off hand. Mostly drivers for the MoBo & video card, as well as games (Serious Sam 1&2, Deus Ex, Far Cry).
Wasn't that fun?
Well, it wasn't just any fires-they were burning bushes. Looks like you need to brush up on your Old Testament! ;)