Yep, doesnt cost M$ jack shit to print out a ton of copies of Office and Windows. If the military wanted someone to develop some software for them do you think they would go to Microsoft? Imagine what would happen if a the software on a cruise missle BSODed.
$440 000 000? Tiny. M$ got a contract for $470 000 000 for the U.S. military. Even if there was 5 or 6 of these big suits annually that had a half billion fine M$ would still turn a profit.
Its a compact flash microdrive.. CF is the form factor afterall, not just the memory type. Theres CF-wifi cards afterall. People have been taking these things apart just for the micro drive anyways. If I got one of these I would probably do the same thing, without a decent headphone jack this thing thing is bloddy useless.
Most of slashdot probably already downloads warez and music. Porn would just add another offense to most peoples list. Just imagine if you got the repeat offender penalty though. Life for jerkin your girkin..
Good thing I'm in Canada or I'd be screwed.
I'm not sure how many Americans follow Canadian politics but right now it doesn't look like the next liberal government will be very strong. Unlink the last 2 elections theres not a hope in hell for them to get a majority goverment. If a party like the NDP (basically softcore socialists) has a decent number of seats they'll fight against any changes in Canadian copyright laws. Its all up in the air right now.
Even if you had mass downloading or music minus the record labels most decent artists would probably be able to sell a fair amount of CDs with publicity gained in the P2P networks. Artisits make most of their money touring anyways. How many people do you think would stop going to concerts because they can get the songs for free?
If I hear about a band, I download some songs, if its good I might go and spend $20 on a cd or $50 on a concert ticketm even though I can get the music free.
If you had one of these stashed in say a neighbors house with some illegal stuff on it and you got raided you could probably get away with it..
This could also be good for a close range offsite back up. Just have an agreement with a neighbor to keep a harddrive of eachothers at eachothers house in case of fire or some other disaster.
Actually you can get it off TechTV and not have to install Kazaa on your comp.
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/sto ry/0,24330,3464142,00.html
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I didn't know that lawyers started spam. I guess this is more evidence that lawyers are pure evil.
Yep, doesnt cost M$ jack shit to print out a ton of copies of Office and Windows. If the military wanted someone to develop some software for them do you think they would go to Microsoft? Imagine what would happen if a the software on a cruise missle BSODed.
Imagine how many car crashes this is going to be responsible for. It will be like trying to watch TV and drive at the same time. Yay.
$440 000 000? Tiny. M$ got a contract for $470 000 000 for the U.S. military. Even if there was 5 or 6 of these big suits annually that had a half billion fine M$ would still turn a profit.
American spacecraft, Russian spacecraft, both made in Taiwan.
Hwo do you pronounce that? Like Goose?
Its a compact flash microdrive.. CF is the form factor afterall, not just the memory type. Theres CF-wifi cards afterall. People have been taking these things apart just for the micro drive anyways. If I got one of these I would probably do the same thing, without a decent headphone jack this thing thing is bloddy useless.
Why would you pay $2.99 for a song when you can download it for free? Pfft..
Do badgers have good driver support?
Most of slashdot probably already downloads warez and music. Porn would just add another offense to most peoples list. Just imagine if you got the repeat offender penalty though. Life for jerkin your girkin.. Good thing I'm in Canada or I'd be screwed.
All we need now is a sound for when the disc is put in that says "particle cannon uplink ready."
Makes you wonder if theyre running on these things.
I'm not sure how many Americans follow Canadian politics but right now it doesn't look like the next liberal government will be very strong. Unlink the last 2 elections theres not a hope in hell for them to get a majority goverment. If a party like the NDP (basically softcore socialists) has a decent number of seats they'll fight against any changes in Canadian copyright laws. Its all up in the air right now.
Even if you had mass downloading or music minus the record labels most decent artists would probably be able to sell a fair amount of CDs with publicity gained in the P2P networks. Artisits make most of their money touring anyways. How many people do you think would stop going to concerts because they can get the songs for free? If I hear about a band, I download some songs, if its good I might go and spend $20 on a cd or $50 on a concert ticketm even though I can get the music free.
If you lose power to traffic lights most people just go to the 4 way stop procedue. It would be chaos though.
If the power went out you'd be screwed.
No, but the ARIA is acting like file sharing is killing them. This is not the case.
Wouldn't he be LlamaboyNeal then?
You wish you had a heart attack? Without any way of phoning out? LOL. You'd be rolling in 6 feet of dirt, not cash.
Is it just me or is there a lot of companies that have strange obsesessions with llamas... Maxis and Nullsoft for example.
I dobut it.. Most modders also want high performance, right? I dobut this will be nearly as fast as a SATA HD.
If you had one of these stashed in say a neighbors house with some illegal stuff on it and you got raided you could probably get away with it.. This could also be good for a close range offsite back up. Just have an agreement with a neighbor to keep a harddrive of eachothers at eachothers house in case of fire or some other disaster.
Well... crap.
You really think the RIAA is profiting off this? The only people getting cash out of this are the damn lawyers.
Actually you can get it off TechTV and not have to install Kazaa on your comp. http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/sto ry/0,24330,3464142,00.html