This is so true. I was going to ask something similar but this post pretty much sums it up for me and WoW right about now. It also is why I am letting my WoW subscription lapse. Please make sure this question is asked.
I also couldn't find the "Hey I got Linux running on my $20 frys router" page. I certainly found the "wouldn't it be cool if linux ran on one of these cheap routers" page linked by the story. Free +5 insightful if someone can post a link to the page showing how to install linux on one of these things or perhaps some screenshots of it running on it.
So I guess your point is that when google is used to look up someone who is poor, then who cares. Since the person google looked up is filthy rich, then everyone should care. If ZNET wrote an article about how google could be used to look up all sorts of personal information and used Joe nobody as an example then google wouldn't care.
The purpose of the article is to highlight the problem and get google to acknowledge it's existence and work towards a solution. Instead of realizing the problem, google threw a hissy fit. It makes google look childish.
You would need to buy 25 songs a month to make up the difference for that subscription. That means you need to spend $24.75 a month ($5 for the subscription and 25 songs *.79/song) just for yahoo to cost the same amount. So for anyone that buys less than an average of 25 songs a month this service is a waste. Since you decide to keep more than 25 songs a month (more than 300 a year) I'm sure you are happy with yahoo. This also assumes that you are also happy with the file format from yahoo (WMA) which is not compatible with all players such as the ipod.
Since I do not buy over 300 songs a year and do not want to use WMA files, I choose not to use yahoo's music. People are different and this could be a deal for other people. Just not me.
"The fact that most users chose not to spend the extra $30 to do so, tells you that they didn't really miss it."
I would bet that if apple switched to a 2 button mouse even less people would go out and buy a $20 1 button mouse. That would mean that mac users would miss a 1 button mouse less.
By the way, the statement that most users chose not to spend $30 on a better mouse is not rooted in any sort of fact (probably just a personal observation although if you have a scientific study on 1 button mouse use I'd love to see it). I'd like to point out that my personal observation is that almost all of the mac users I know have gone out and bought a better mouse. Places like on campus labs do not upgrade to 2 button mice because they are stingy and will use whatever is bundled with the computer.
"Well how else do you think Bill Gates gets customers? It's the same reason Kim Jong-il is in power."
So Bill spends his money on weapons to suppress his customers instead of feeding them? That has nothing to do with getting anyone while they are young. Maybe there is some sort of 9 year old forced army enrollment in North Korea that I don't know about yet. Even if there was one, that's not funny.
Violence is way worse. You comment on inappropriate sex. Well inappropriate violence leads to your child going out and killing a bunch of people. If I had to chose between my underage child getting pregnant and shooting up a school, I'll take pregnant any day of the week. Of course the idea that a video game will make a teenager more violent than say watching a war that their country started on the TV is debatable.
Hey, if they're dropping prices, I'm dropped Benjamins.
Wow. You change your name when apple lowers their prices. I'm not that brave. You picked a weird name to change it to though. Dropped Benjamins. Sounds like a band name. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
I fail to see how Apple spending money out of their own pockets on processor speed increases is a "huge win for apple." It does not help Apple to take PPC IP to Intel because intel will not pour R&D cash into a competing technology. Moving from IBM to Intel to make PPC chips is not impossible, it's just stupid.
Apple just needs a fast and cheap processor to put in their computers. Apple also needs a reliable manufacturer of said chip. If Apple is going to use Intel for processors, they would be stupid to stick with PPC. Intel spends tons of R&D money improving their processors. Not using that money would be a waste.
I think you are missing the point of the poster. The point was that the American Revolution did not make a huge dent to British rule at the time. It wasn't until after the civil war, the rise of the modern corporation, and US military dominance after world war 2 that US Hegemony took root. There was no way to tell that the US would rise to have power to wage war anywhere opposed only by world public opinion. At the time of the American Revolution, world power was centered around the British Empire. A revolution in France at the time had a much greater impact on the current dominant empire, Britain.
Today it's hard to ignore the American revolution because it gave birth to one of the greatest corporate controlled governments of our time. I say corporate controlled because both political parties listen to the corporations that pay money to reelection campaigns more than they do to voters. I'd go on about how my vote doesn't count anymore, but I'm getting seriously offtopic then.
"I hope we shall take warning from the example [of England] and crush in it's [sic] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country."
1. Show that a TV show has bad statistics
2. get physics degree based on 1
3. ???
4. Profit
Those are some big question-marks cause if that is how you spend your time developing your physics degree, your degree won't be worth much to profit from.
Does anyone know if you can get a rebate on OS X if you decide not to use it? I'm guessing the system software is licensed differently than Microsoft's windows so getting a refund on OS X is impossible. Anyone know if this is true? It would be great if one could buy a $500 computer and then get an extra $130 off of that.
"When they start locking him up for free speech, then come back."
As others have said before there is a gag order on the site. That means that as his logs are being subpoenaed, he has no free speech. People have died to protect that right, so it can be considered worse than going to jail.
I had a high school history teacher that made me remember the phrase "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." Since I forgot most of the class, there is no way I am going to remember some obscure project 40 years ago.
Well it's gonna happen again. Along with a bunch of other things cause I only got A's in Math and science. I think remembering things like this are more important than remembering the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
Well the record companies need to adapt to the views of their customers. They failed to adapt to the needs of their customers needs for music in compressed digital form. Because of this they failed to have a compressed digital audio store with the success of the iTMS. People also do not want DRM on their songs. The record companies do not want to participate in the real world and would rather mold the real world into one that forces people to use DRM and rent their content.
I don't know how you got modded as insightful with a post meant to put down someone else's point of view. He was making a stand to protect the consumer, which is you, and you put him down. Filtering out or ignoring opposing points of view is one of the most ignorant things a person can do. That is what prevented progress in the civil rights movement (women and minorities voting etc.). Perhaps the subject is not as important as voting rights, but your method of argument is that of a suppressor. I find it highly uninstightful.
Unfortunately thinksecret was reporting something that apple was going to publicly announce anyhow. Think secret could also have been wrong about the information that they got. If you want to publish everything you know about me and I'm going to do the same tomorrow anyhow, I wouldn't really care. If you publish a whole bunch of stuff about me and it's all wrong and I then correct you the next day, I wouldn't care too much either. As it stands I think the thinksecret's case falls under the announcing a few days before apple did category. Apple is not going to look good forcing someone to rat on their friend.
Apple may very well be right. If apple tried asking nicely without slapping expensive legal fees on someone that can't afford it then, I would side with apple 100%. Unfortunately apple went straight to legal action against them. Makes apple look like a bully. Perhaps a totally correct bully, but still a bully.
You also can't use the airport extreme cause the hardware is closed. Your options for wireless are:
1. use a USB or PCMCIA card (yuk)
2. don't use wireless. use a cable.
You also can't watch flash content cause macromedia doesn't release a linux ppc software. I've tried linux PPC on a laptop before and these two things are preventing me from trying again.
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This is so true. I was going to ask something similar but this post pretty much sums it up for me and WoW right about now. It also is why I am letting my WoW subscription lapse. Please make sure this question is asked.
I also couldn't find the "Hey I got Linux running on my $20 frys router" page. I certainly found the "wouldn't it be cool if linux ran on one of these cheap routers" page linked by the story. Free +5 insightful if someone can post a link to the page showing how to install linux on one of these things or perhaps some screenshots of it running on it.
The purpose of the article is to highlight the problem and get google to acknowledge it's existence and work towards a solution. Instead of realizing the problem, google threw a hissy fit. It makes google look childish.
Since I do not buy over 300 songs a year and do not want to use WMA files, I choose not to use yahoo's music. People are different and this could be a deal for other people. Just not me.
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Considering how well sun is doing right now I'd say that copying any strategic moves from them is a bad idea.
I would bet that if apple switched to a 2 button mouse even less people would go out and buy a $20 1 button mouse. That would mean that mac users would miss a 1 button mouse less.
By the way, the statement that most users chose not to spend $30 on a better mouse is not rooted in any sort of fact (probably just a personal observation although if you have a scientific study on 1 button mouse use I'd love to see it). I'd like to point out that my personal observation is that almost all of the mac users I know have gone out and bought a better mouse. Places like on campus labs do not upgrade to 2 button mice because they are stingy and will use whatever is bundled with the computer.
So Bill spends his money on weapons to suppress his customers instead of feeding them? That has nothing to do with getting anyone while they are young. Maybe there is some sort of 9 year old forced army enrollment in North Korea that I don't know about yet. Even if there was one, that's not funny.
Violence is way worse. You comment on inappropriate sex. Well inappropriate violence leads to your child going out and killing a bunch of people. If I had to chose between my underage child getting pregnant and shooting up a school, I'll take pregnant any day of the week. Of course the idea that a video game will make a teenager more violent than say watching a war that their country started on the TV is debatable.
How are more buttons a security issue?
At about $50 it's also nowhere near as expensive.
Wow. You change your name when apple lowers their prices. I'm not that brave. You picked a weird name to change it to though. Dropped Benjamins. Sounds like a band name. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
Apple just needs a fast and cheap processor to put in their computers. Apple also needs a reliable manufacturer of said chip. If Apple is going to use Intel for processors, they would be stupid to stick with PPC. Intel spends tons of R&D money improving their processors. Not using that money would be a waste.
Today it's hard to ignore the American revolution because it gave birth to one of the greatest corporate controlled governments of our time. I say corporate controlled because both political parties listen to the corporations that pay money to reelection campaigns more than they do to voters. I'd go on about how my vote doesn't count anymore, but I'm getting seriously offtopic then.
"I hope we shall take warning from the example [of England] and crush in it's [sic] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country."
--Thomas Jefferson's Letter to George Logan, (November 12, 1816)
1. Show that a TV show has bad statistics
2. get physics degree based on 1
3. ???
4. Profit
Those are some big question-marks cause if that is how you spend your time developing your physics degree, your degree won't be worth much to profit from.
Does anyone know if you can get a rebate on OS X if you decide not to use it? I'm guessing the system software is licensed differently than Microsoft's windows so getting a refund on OS X is impossible. Anyone know if this is true? It would be great if one could buy a $500 computer and then get an extra $130 off of that.
Talk about a grassroots energy source
For some reason I thought my inability to reach the site was the FBI's doing. Guess Slashdot is being evil.
Linspire is not free(as in beer) and if the company goes bankrupt, there goes your OS. I prefer Ubuntu.
As others have said before there is a gag order on the site. That means that as his logs are being subpoenaed, he has no free speech. People have died to protect that right, so it can be considered worse than going to jail.
Well it's gonna happen again. Along with a bunch of other things cause I only got A's in Math and science. I think remembering things like this are more important than remembering the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
I don't know how you got modded as insightful with a post meant to put down someone else's point of view. He was making a stand to protect the consumer, which is you, and you put him down. Filtering out or ignoring opposing points of view is one of the most ignorant things a person can do. That is what prevented progress in the civil rights movement (women and minorities voting etc.). Perhaps the subject is not as important as voting rights, but your method of argument is that of a suppressor. I find it highly uninstightful.
That will work until you find out that you actually have to pay Hasbro money along with removing your website.
Apple may very well be right. If apple tried asking nicely without slapping expensive legal fees on someone that can't afford it then, I would side with apple 100%. Unfortunately apple went straight to legal action against them. Makes apple look like a bully. Perhaps a totally correct bully, but still a bully.
1. use a USB or PCMCIA card (yuk)
2. don't use wireless. use a cable.
You also can't watch flash content cause macromedia doesn't release a linux ppc software. I've tried linux PPC on a laptop before and these two things are preventing me from trying again.