You don't understand. At one point in time bolts and any improvements to them WERE patented. In fact, some still are, though the early patents have long since expired. bolts
Standard paradigm. Click "+" to add a mapping. Select Opera, type the name of the menu command to map (e.g. "Close") and then click in the box and type your command-keystroke (cmd-w). You typically will need to resart the app to see the changes.
I'm glad you didn't say, "...and enables producers to PROFITABLY enter those markets."
Yes, there may be dozens of green tennis shoe fanatics out there, but one still has the age-old problem. How do you find them, or how do they find you? And which brings us to the even bigger question: Are dozens of green tennis shoe fanatics enough to sustain a business?
Firefly has been tossed around, so I'll use that example. Yes, there's a market. But is it large enough? IIRC that show cost about a million per episode, so the real question becomes whether or not producers could make a profit selling iTMS downloads at $1.99 a crack.
Sponsors and advertisers could eat some of that cost, but will people accept ads if they also have to pay for it? What else? Bump the price to $4.99/ea.?
In short, there may be a niche, but is that niche large enough to stand on?
Huh. It would seem to me that there's an allocation process only because the studios have to decide in advance how well the movie will do, and correspondingly, how many prints to make.
Further, satellite downloads give the theaters more flexibility because they can more easily "stage" several films through the same theater at different times. More kid stuff during the day, switching to adult stuff at night. And by not having to ship the film back, they can keep niche material longer.
Of course, they may, as you suggest, stay the same and keep the savings. Then again, if they're fronting the costs of the upgrades...
Porn? No. But torrents are a major issue, as they find the caterwauling of your Britteny Spears to be rather soothing. In fact, so much so that we have...
Oh frack! Belt-azr-ses, I've blown my cover! If you're monitoring this secure communcations channel I request immediate evac!
Given the number of botnets, virii, trojans, worms, probes, attacks, and other exploits out there, one could well argue that many people have "already" lost the freedom to use their own property in the ways they wish.
You may not like locking down the hardware and software, but something needs to be done...
Actually, while I used to take an iPaq around with me everywhere containing a bunch of eBooks, recently its been gathering dust. Why? iPod. And Audible.
I got a subscription to Audible where I get two audio books a month for about $11 each. Those are first run mainstream books, at prices less than half that of the hardback, and typically a quarter that of the CD audio discs.
And I can "read" books in the car, at the gym, and in other places where reading on the iPaq or a real book would be impossible. Plug the pod into a set of speakers, and I can read while doing moving around, working, cleaning, or yes, in the bathtub.
Three things, the first of which is that I can read the books on my iPaq in very dim restaurants and places where I'd be unable to read a normal book. Second, when I go on a trip I can grab it and have--quite literally--half my library with me. Third, I move around quite a bit.
So personally, I'm at the other end of the spectrum. I've already eliminated hundreds of CDs by ripping them to my iPod, and I've already mentioned the books. Now I just need a Mac-based solution for getting my DVD collection to a good sized hard drive, and I'll be happy not having to move a ton of books, cds, and videos.
If true I apologize, but while they may be "in keeping with the license", to my mind they're not in keeping with the spirit of the license, especially as the CDs are bundled as an incentive to buy the hardbacks.
To quote from above, "In addition, the license on the CDs state that you can make copies and give them away to friends and family. No restrictions, as long as you're not making a profit."
It's bullshit like your torrent post that screws these things up for everyone else. Baen is simple, fair, inexpensive, DRM-free, and doesn't ask for much in return... but what he does ask you ignore anyway. Thank you so VERY much.
And no. The entire/. community does not count as your friends, nor your family...
Since the work wouldn't exist at ALL without the artists, and since, by and large, they tend to be some of the most creative people on the plant, I would tend to support their rights to their work. This, say, as opposed to the "rights" of the parasitic types who believe that they're entitled to whatever it is they want...
I have a big problem with people like you who have that attitude. Have you heard of a cost of living increase?
And I have a big problem with people like you who have that attitude. Dada and I have clashed before, but here he's absolutely right. Here in the US raises and increases have become not something to work for, but have become something expected to occur automatically.
The most extreme example of this kind of thinking comes from the unions. While no one can deny their early results created better and safer working conditions and improved benefits, their job of late seems to have become little more than demanding an ever larger slice of the pie. Often, for even less work. Demands which also conveniently ignore the fact that the money they want has to come from somewhere.
And then they act surprised when management shuts down plants and lays off those workers because they'ree no longer competitive. Huh.
...been working for three years without even one of those. In essence, although my value to my company has increased..
Has it? Shall we ask your boss? A tennis player once told coach Vic Braden that he'd been playing for eight years and didn't need his help. Vic replied that, in his opinion, most people have played just one year... eight times in a row.
Just because an effort fails, does not mean that it was for lack of trying.
Oh wow. Did you go to one of those schools where every kid--first and last--got an award and a pat on the head? Get it straight. The marketplace isn't going to reward companies just because they tried.
When was the last time you sent a check to Ford? Sure, for the most part their cars suck, but hey, at least they tried. Or did you, perchance, give your money to the company that actually produced what you wanted? (Of course, you may own a Ford. In which case how much have you voluntarily sent to Chevy and GM? I'm sure the people there tried too.)
Yes, in some cases your job, and the company, is on the line. But as Dr. Johnson said, knowing that you'll be hanged in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully.
Or in words perhaps more familiar: Do. Or do not. There is no try.
As not all of them have keyboards, plus the fact they've added special navigation keys, plus the fact they have touch screens, plus the fact there seem to be potential processor and graphic system constraints, I'd say a port specific to the platform just MIGHT be in order.
In essence, Stevie Wonder, through his representitives, sells his music for a certain price. Now, shall we ask Stevie if you, specifically, are entitled to his music anyway, simpy because you, personally, don't feel that price is fair?
You're correct in that there is, after all, only one Stevie Wonder. But you know what? That's part of his music's value. If having Stevie Wonder's music means enough to you, then buy it. If not, buy someone elses.
Adults make these value decisions every day. Is that Porsche worth the money to me? I paid a premium for a Powerbook. To me it was worth it.
One of the prototypes does have a thumb keyboard if needed, with the screen rotating on the base to reveal it (sort of a "plus" shape).
Personally, they indicated that it will slot in between cell-phones and notebooks, and be easier to pop into a purse or backpack. The real question is: Does that slot exist?
In additon to the obvious music and movie applicatons, I also wonder how many companies will port their games to it. Could this also be MS's entry into the "Game Boy" market?
Personally, they're going in the wrong direction. I've wanted to buy a box, but didn't want to get locked into yet another subscription model. Especially for some TV listings it takes pennies a month to provide.
What they SHOULD have done is offer the listing service for free, as an enticement to buy the hardware. But no, they got greedy and gloomed onto the razor and blade model. "We can get those suckers to pay us FOREVER!"
And how do you expect to eliminate corporations promoting their own ends? In some industries (banking comes to mind) top executives are expected to contribute to the favored parties. In fact, their salaries are "adjusted" to accomondate this. And since the contributions are "personal", they're perfectly legal.
Or how about non-contributions, like ads "Paid for by the Citizens to Reelect" fund?
Personally, the only way I see to eliminate corporate conributions is to eliminate ALL contributions. Perhaps if you get enough signatures to get on the ballot you get a fixed amount of federal/state money to spend, the same as each of your other opponents.
And which would leave us in the same boat: Namely, that Joe Average will still be unable to buy a pre-configured, ready-to-run Dell/Linux desktop. Not everyone is going to want to buy a machine and then track down a suitable OS for it.
And your crack about self-supported Linux uses misses the point yet again. Yes. The Linux experts will have no problem. Unfortunately, I suspect that less that 1% of the planet wishes to aspire to that title. Most simply want to get their work done.
All of the refineries in the are were shut down and evacuated. Ditto for the oil platforms in the gulf. Nothing being produced = disruption of SUPPLY. Fortunately, there wasn't any serious damage done to the infrastucture, and production resumed. And the disruption was short enough that Joe Average didn't see any major shortages at the pump.
Sorry, but your viewpoint seems Pollyannish to me. Just because we "haven't" had any major disruptions in a while doesn't mean that we won't.
And BTW, the "manufactured" disruption in the 70s was a disruption none-the-less, the root cause economic in nature (as I mentioned).
Well, what I'm doing about it is not subscribing to some utopian Pollyannaish vision of the future. Who is going to MOVE 6 billion people to their own parcel of land? Who is going to teach 6 billion to be self-sustaining? Who is going to outfit them? What are they going to live on while they attempt to grow their own food? (Since food production isn't a Quick Fix, Instant-Oatmeal One-Hour photo process either?)
And I think you need to check your numbers. How much of all of that "available" land is arable? Has water and irrigation? Isn't sand and desert? Isn't mountainous or tundra? Isn't a sheet of ice? Has a growing season longer than a few months? Isn't covered by rainforests and trees otherwise needed for, you know, oxygen? Isn't already covered by houses and roads and cities and towns?
Do the math, and I think you've find that most of the available land suitable for farming and food production is... surprise! Being farmed.
And just out of curiosity, what happens to technology and medicine and so forth when everyone is busy planting carrots?
Finally, you may not have noticed, but people involved in sustenance living do not have low birthrates. They breed little workers to help plow the fields, milk the cows, and help with the chores.
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You don't understand. At one point in time bolts and any improvements to them WERE patented. In fact, some still are, though the early patents have long since expired. bolts
Standard paradigm. Click "+" to add a mapping. Select Opera, type the name of the menu command to map (e.g. "Close") and then click in the box and type your command-keystroke (cmd-w). You typically will need to resart the app to see the changes.
Yes, there may be dozens of green tennis shoe fanatics out there, but one still has the age-old problem. How do you find them, or how do they find you? And which brings us to the even bigger question: Are dozens of green tennis shoe fanatics enough to sustain a business?
Firefly has been tossed around, so I'll use that example. Yes, there's a market. But is it large enough? IIRC that show cost about a million per episode, so the real question becomes whether or not producers could make a profit selling iTMS downloads at $1.99 a crack.
Sponsors and advertisers could eat some of that cost, but will people accept ads if they also have to pay for it? What else? Bump the price to $4.99/ea.?
In short, there may be a niche, but is that niche large enough to stand on?
Further, satellite downloads give the theaters more flexibility because they can more easily "stage" several films through the same theater at different times. More kid stuff during the day, switching to adult stuff at night. And by not having to ship the film back, they can keep niche material longer.
Of course, they may, as you suggest, stay the same and keep the savings. Then again, if they're fronting the costs of the upgrades...
System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts
Go down to Application Keyboard Shortcuts, add Opera, and map away...
Oh frack! Belt-azr-ses, I've blown my cover! If you're monitoring this secure communcations channel I request immediate evac!
I think you forgot the part where the company bills you for the missing laptop entrusted in your care...
You may not like locking down the hardware and software, but something needs to be done...
I got a subscription to Audible where I get two audio books a month for about $11 each. Those are first run mainstream books, at prices less than half that of the hardback, and typically a quarter that of the CD audio discs.
And I can "read" books in the car, at the gym, and in other places where reading on the iPaq or a real book would be impossible. Plug the pod into a set of speakers, and I can read while doing moving around, working, cleaning, or yes, in the bathtub.
So personally, I'm at the other end of the spectrum. I've already eliminated hundreds of CDs by ripping them to my iPod, and I've already mentioned the books. Now I just need a Mac-based solution for getting my DVD collection to a good sized hard drive, and I'll be happy not having to move a ton of books, cds, and videos.
If true I apologize, but while they may be "in keeping with the license", to my mind they're not in keeping with the spirit of the license, especially as the CDs are bundled as an incentive to buy the hardbacks.
It's bullshit like your torrent post that screws these things up for everyone else. Baen is simple, fair, inexpensive, DRM-free, and doesn't ask for much in return... but what he does ask you ignore anyway. Thank you so VERY much.
And no. The entire /. community does not count as your friends, nor your family...
Wow. Are they sure they can't get DOS and OS/2 involved in that process somehow?
Since the work wouldn't exist at ALL without the artists, and since, by and large, they tend to be some of the most creative people on the plant, I would tend to support their rights to their work. This, say, as opposed to the "rights" of the parasitic types who believe that they're entitled to whatever it is they want...
Yeah. And it's great that those thousands of open-source eyeballs caught it before... oh, wait.
And I have a big problem with people like you who have that attitude. Dada and I have clashed before, but here he's absolutely right. Here in the US raises and increases have become not something to work for, but have become something expected to occur automatically.
The most extreme example of this kind of thinking comes from the unions. While no one can deny their early results created better and safer working conditions and improved benefits, their job of late seems to have become little more than demanding an ever larger slice of the pie. Often, for even less work. Demands which also conveniently ignore the fact that the money they want has to come from somewhere.
And then they act surprised when management shuts down plants and lays off those workers because they'ree no longer competitive. Huh.
Has it? Shall we ask your boss? A tennis player once told coach Vic Braden that he'd been playing for eight years and didn't need his help. Vic replied that, in his opinion, most people have played just one year... eight times in a row.
Just because an effort fails, does not mean that it was for lack of trying.
Oh wow. Did you go to one of those schools where every kid--first and last--got an award and a pat on the head? Get it straight. The marketplace isn't going to reward companies just because they tried.
When was the last time you sent a check to Ford? Sure, for the most part their cars suck, but hey, at least they tried. Or did you, perchance, give your money to the company that actually produced what you wanted? (Of course, you may own a Ford. In which case how much have you voluntarily sent to Chevy and GM? I'm sure the people there tried too.)
Yes, in some cases your job, and the company, is on the line. But as Dr. Johnson said, knowing that you'll be hanged in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully.
Or in words perhaps more familiar: Do. Or do not. There is no try.
But, hey, thanks for playing...
You're correct in that there is, after all, only one Stevie Wonder. But you know what? That's part of his music's value. If having Stevie Wonder's music means enough to you, then buy it. If not, buy someone elses.
Adults make these value decisions every day. Is that Porsche worth the money to me? I paid a premium for a Powerbook. To me it was worth it.
Personally, they indicated that it will slot in between cell-phones and notebooks, and be easier to pop into a purse or backpack. The real question is: Does that slot exist?
In additon to the obvious music and movie applicatons, I also wonder how many companies will port their games to it. Could this also be MS's entry into the "Game Boy" market?
What they SHOULD have done is offer the listing service for free, as an enticement to buy the hardware. But no, they got greedy and gloomed onto the razor and blade model. "We can get those suckers to pay us FOREVER!"
And I can't buy a Jaguar from Chevy, or a Apple PowerBook from eMachines either. I mean, what's up with that?
Or how about non-contributions, like ads "Paid for by the Citizens to Reelect" fund?
Personally, the only way I see to eliminate corporate conributions is to eliminate ALL contributions. Perhaps if you get enough signatures to get on the ballot you get a fixed amount of federal/state money to spend, the same as each of your other opponents.
And your crack about self-supported Linux uses misses the point yet again. Yes. The Linux experts will have no problem. Unfortunately, I suspect that less that 1% of the planet wishes to aspire to that title. Most simply want to get their work done.
Sorry, but your viewpoint seems Pollyannish to me. Just because we "haven't" had any major disruptions in a while doesn't mean that we won't.
And BTW, the "manufactured" disruption in the 70s was a disruption none-the-less, the root cause economic in nature (as I mentioned).
And I think you need to check your numbers. How much of all of that "available" land is arable? Has water and irrigation? Isn't sand and desert? Isn't mountainous or tundra? Isn't a sheet of ice? Has a growing season longer than a few months? Isn't covered by rainforests and trees otherwise needed for, you know, oxygen? Isn't already covered by houses and roads and cities and towns?
Do the math, and I think you've find that most of the available land suitable for farming and food production is... surprise! Being farmed.
And just out of curiosity, what happens to technology and medicine and so forth when everyone is busy planting carrots?
Finally, you may not have noticed, but people involved in sustenance living do not have low birthrates. They breed little workers to help plow the fields, milk the cows, and help with the chores.