Last time I checked our little worldy conflicts have been going on for thousands of years, and that is most likely not going to change for thousands more.
The machine YOU'RE using as a road warrior would still be taking up all of your desk space if it wasn't for Steve Jobs' sheer balls.
Wow, I'm not sure how you type with Steve's dick in your mouth, but you seem to be really good at it.
Most of your points are bogus, but again your infatuation with Job's genatalia might have warped your opinion. Last time I check all those "advancements" Steve force were only on about 1% of the user population at the time, hardly what I would call a major influence.
About the coolest and only thing I can think of that that only Apple does is the magnetic power cords on their laptops. Nothing like tripping over a power cord and having your machine go flying.
Other than that the only inovation Apple seems to produce is taking what's already out there, rearranging it, hyping it, and making stupid money off of people that buy Apple hardware not because they are buying the best (so exactly what's inside the guts of an Apple these days, oh yeah that's right it's a PC), but because it's Apple.
The target market is in fact fashion conscious users, and students, and others whose requirements are a sexy form factor.
aka....The Retarded
No wired LAN, no DVD-rom...this device is for the person who already has a desktop at home, but is too cool to actually use it, or is trying to gain a little status in the coffee shop crowd.
Nope not wrong. I could take all the pictures I wanted and sell them as pictures from Kentucky, again they couldn't do a thing to me, even if the whole Kentucky trademark is real. If it were real then the only way I'd get in trouble is if I started selling photos or products that were "Kentucky XXXXXX" then maybe they'd have a case against me.
Don't believe me go hit google and search through any major photography website's FAQ about copyright and trademark restrictions and you'll find plenty of references.
The only true hard right that any person or entity has that they can use to keep your from using pictures is those taken on private property where photographic restiction policies are in place and posted, but you can again circumvent those same policies by staying one step outside their property line. (Peeping Tom laws do add some other restrictions that trump this.)
Trademark law doesn't force them to do anything, because this particular case has plenty of precedence. The Trademark holder never wins when cases like this go to trial.
This is nothing more than making a threat and seeing if the other side flinches. If they do, bonus, one more sucker giving up their rights that they are legally entitled to.
Number 1 I like. Corporations should be businesses only.
Number 2 I like, except for the college loan reimbursement, well at least not all college degree programs. Hard sciences, medicine, engineering sure. Fluff degrees no. There would also be a national service requirement as well, yep that's right boys and girls time to join the Army. In otherwords there is no so such thing as a free lunch.
Number 3 is silly, the rules are the rules, don't get mad because he won on a technicality, and that the average Voter has a the same IQ as the number of holes he punched in the ballot. I do agree a little with the terrorist regime. We shouldn't attack any other country unless they are a valid, as in more people are going to die than people manage to do to themselves with home appliances in a year, honest to God threat. Once the threat is determined it should be eliminated without discusions, negotiations, economic sanctions, UN resolutions, Shock and Awe, Occupation, or Nation Building. Turn the whole place into a glass parking lot and get back to our own affairs. Once people realize we meen business there'll be far less nonsense coming from petty regimes that can handle things in their own backyards.
Number 4 yes, I agree, accept it would be called the Department of We are going to Remove your Ass from the Face of the Earth, as it should be, not some feel good title like "Defense". If you manage to provoke us enough that we call these guys, people should be very affraid, and the aftermath should be something that would make even the Devil cringe.
Number 5. We I think if you meen by reparations as in a sucker punch in the face or a wack in the head with a stick then yes, reparations all around. Stupid people should never be rewarded for doing stupid things, like living BELOW sea level and then actually having the nerve to bitch about a little rain. By the same token all the government officials that let this go on for as long as it did, the building zoning below sea level part, not FEMA (FEMA actually did what was called by their charter, it wasn't their fault that people at the City and State level had their head up their collective asses.), should be hauled off to prison, one perferedly built in the 9th ward, so they can experience first hand "What no real evacuation plan in effect" means.
There is no reason to seek a Permit and Proceed letter since the club is not releasing an "Official Ford Mustang" calendar. If they were trying to, then they are stupid and deserved to get slapped up side the head by a lawyer. Neither trademark nor copyright give them rights to keep you the average photographer from taking any picture of anything and then selling it for money.
You can take a picture of yourself holding a Pepsi, in your Calvin Klein purple underwear, leaning up against a Delorian while holding a poster for Back to the Future and post it for sale and there is little that any of the companies involved can do to you legally other than make threats.
More companies DON'T do this because they would rather continue the fallacy that they actually have iron clad rights to everything.
Ford does not have the right to restrict the taking of or the sale of any photos of their products. Neither copyright or trademarks give them that kind of power. You might be on thin ice if you tried to sell an "Official Ford" Mustang calender, but a Mustang Club selling a calendar of their members rides is completely legit.
Companies & cities have tried similar tactics with national landmarks and their buildings, to either gain a revenue stream or prevent anyone else from creating products that might compete with their own projects or be used in lawsuites or public criticism, but again all of them have been tossed out of court.
Copyright only protects their original works, and Trademark only protects their products from duplication or, neither prevent you from making pictures and selling them for profit.
...would have provided some means for format and space shifting of access controlled content. Had/if HD DVD taken off, we'd see HD DVD players that can store entire libraries of movies, and stream them around the house....
You'd be able to store HD DVD movies on your laptop computers instead of carrying the discs around with you. You'd be able to condense movies into forms storeable on compatible portable video players.
Already can, already do. Both HD & BR schemes have been cracked and easy one button ripping software is available.
The only difference between HD DVD & BR for me is that I'd never be willing to buy any thing from SONY, it'll be rental only just like I do with their movies on DVD now.
They may degrade, but you don't have to replace them, the newer cheap plastic printed solar cells maybe, but most will still be pumping out 70-80% of their rated amount in 25 years. Still quite useable since the payback rate is getting down to 10 years.
That's funny your comment about power usage, because that's exactly how one of the IT guys got found out by management. He was running seti@home during the night on all the work stations and servers. Finance noticed a jump in the power bill about the same time this guy was brought in to work in their IT section. He was racking up quite a few points for the 3 months or so he was getting away with it.
Yawn, so that's like what, 100 people bought Apple's in October. Haven't we had a bunch of article float through how the desktop computer was effectively dead in Japan for 90% of the population?
Having Google show you all kinds of things that link back to your identity is a very good thing. After I saw how accurately Google showed how many, and there were many, places my private information was bouncing around the net I was able to quickly pull the plug on every business and social site that was leaking my info.
Now when I do a search I find nothing about myself even after digging through 20 or 30 pages of Google search results.
Now why can't the US government just do a bunch of Google searches for data? Well that's because it's ilegal for them to compile or release information on US citizens outside the scope of the reason it was collected without your consent or without a court order.
Read the Privacy Act of 1974, it very specifically spells out what they can and can't do. One of those things they can't do is create computer data bases that let's them go on "fishing" trips by doing searches in public and private data bases without a court order. Which is exactly what they want to be able to do.
Besides at those altitudes the whole concept of ground and heights becomes more of a theoretical concept rather than a butt puckering reality. You know you are heigh up, but most of your references you're used to associating with hieghts are gone. Same goes for speed. 150mph seems like impending doom behind the wheel of a car. 600mph at 10,000ft seems like a leisurely pace.
"we can only speculate what additional motives might be driving nations that heavily censor the Internet and lock down the flow of information across it."
I really don't think the US is going to stay free of blame much longer, and I'm a somewhat privileged citizen.
Privileged citizen? You mean still living at home?
Well to start off with, HD rips are only 25gb at 1080p, unless we are talking about the super directors cut of LOR or something. Right now that's a little too big, but give it a year or two and it'll be as easy as storing the typical 4-6gb a DVD rip is now. Personally I still buy mostly DVD's, I only buy my favorite movies on HD, so far we are only talking about 10 movies that I've bought. I have a 40" 720p tv and HD looks very nice on it, and yes it's not that much better than DVD. You really need a 1080p monitor/TV (1080i is a marketing scam) to see a night and day difference, which I do on my other machine. (DVD's look like dog shit in comparison.)
I don't have a need to compress anything, because I will never burn them back to optical media, and don't see a point of watching movies on a 3" screen. I hate optical media more than you hate MS. HD DVD players are much faster and less quirky than DVD players, since there is only one standard vs. the dozen or so DVD media types, but I've already made the jump to bulk storage and have no intention of going back. I strip all the messages, ads, and menus which saves a little space, but it's more just to reduce annoyance factor than to save any real amount of space.
Building a TB server is no big thing anymore in terms of space or cost. I currently have 1.5tb spread over 6 drives of various size and age. When I do a rebuild this spring it'll jump to 2TB and only be on 2 drives. Sure a server eats up electricity, about $10 a month, but there is a few things my server does that your CD binder does not. First off when it's not in use it runs various programs with BOINC. Cancer, physics, math, and weather research. In reality leaving it on all the time, running both cores at 100%, costs me nothing since it keeps my house warm. Think of it as a space heater that has added bonus of being a media center that also runs research programs on the side. I rarely have to turn on the heat. So my gas bill is quite low. I'm in England, land of no AC, so it doesn't hit me in the summer either.
The really big bonus of running a server, compared to a bunch of discs in a binder, is the fact that I can have access to every piece of media I own, without having to worry about scratched discs, swapping them, or what room of the house I'm in. That and I can surf the net, talk on the phone, play games, listen to music, etc all from the same machine. My PC server is my entertainment center, other than the 40"LCD, speakers, and a couple of couches there is nothing else in my living room. It's all very neat and tidy.
Now the whole Microsoft thing, is a bit childish don't you think? The worse thing these guys have done lately is actually make all the cheap skates get a valid copy of windows. I don't buy the whole MS OS tax argument for new PC's, that's what all of $30? Quit crying and just format the harddrive and put what you want on it already, or better yet build your own. Sure it's not free like Linux (with gaping holes in driver support), or hip (gay) like OSX, and they do dumb stuff like bundle media player, yawn just don't use it, etc with it, but the last time I checked they don't restrict much else of what you want to do unlike other products.
SONY may technically be the lesser of two evils, but it's not for a lack of trying. That and SONY and MS are not the same catagory of evil. Apple would be the more appropriate comparison; proprietary hardware, heavily restricted software, and a large amount of arrogance. Though I will give Apple props since they happen to have some actual technical and marketing skill, and unlike SONY, and deliver a fairly high quality product in exchange for your immortal soul and eternal alligiance.
You must have been born yesterday if you think Sony is the greater of two evils.
I was born in 1971, and have watched SONY long slow slide into mediocrity. (The PS2 being the one bright exception.)
It's amazing to learn there are others out there. Everyone always told me I as insane for ESDF. Of course they called me crazy when I switched from the arrow keys to the key pad, and then later for jumping to WASD.
I think the next leap will be to that configureable keyboard that is out, with every key layed out perfectly for my hand.
When I came over to the UK I expected to make a wholesale shift over to metric, but other temperature, gas being sold in liters (at gastly high prices), and food at the store being sold in kg I haven't seen any other evidence of day to day use of metric. Of course to be fair the 4 things you listed pretty much make up 95% of the average Brit's day.;D
Stateside metric is only commonly found in science, weather, fire arms, and beverage products (a large portion of bottles and cans are now standard metric sizes). Outside of that the average American doesn't get much exposure to it.
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Last time I checked our little worldy conflicts have been going on for thousands of years, and that is most likely not going to change for thousands more.
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I like your signature it hits the bullseye when talking about the members of Steve Jobs flock.
Wow, I'm not sure how you type with Steve's dick in your mouth, but you seem to be really good at it.
Most of your points are bogus, but again your infatuation with Job's genatalia might have warped your opinion. Last time I check all those "advancements" Steve force were only on about 1% of the user population at the time, hardly what I would call a major influence.
About the coolest and only thing I can think of that that only Apple does is the magnetic power cords on their laptops. Nothing like tripping over a power cord and having your machine go flying.
Other than that the only inovation Apple seems to produce is taking what's already out there, rearranging it, hyping it, and making stupid money off of people that buy Apple hardware not because they are buying the best (so exactly what's inside the guts of an Apple these days, oh yeah that's right it's a PC), but because it's Apple.
aka....The Retarded
No wired LAN, no DVD-rom...this device is for the person who already has a desktop at home, but is too cool to actually use it, or is trying to gain a little status in the coffee shop crowd.
They aren't worthless idiots, they are what they are, and Apple treats them exactly how they should be treated.
Fleecing are what sheep are for.
Don't believe me go hit google and search through any major photography website's FAQ about copyright and trademark restrictions and you'll find plenty of references.
The only true hard right that any person or entity has that they can use to keep your from using pictures is those taken on private property where photographic restiction policies are in place and posted, but you can again circumvent those same policies by staying one step outside their property line. (Peeping Tom laws do add some other restrictions that trump this.)
This is nothing more than making a threat and seeing if the other side flinches. If they do, bonus, one more sucker giving up their rights that they are legally entitled to.
Number 2 I like, except for the college loan reimbursement, well at least not all college degree programs. Hard sciences, medicine, engineering sure. Fluff degrees no. There would also be a national service requirement as well, yep that's right boys and girls time to join the Army. In otherwords there is no so such thing as a free lunch.
Number 3 is silly, the rules are the rules, don't get mad because he won on a technicality, and that the average Voter has a the same IQ as the number of holes he punched in the ballot. I do agree a little with the terrorist regime. We shouldn't attack any other country unless they are a valid, as in more people are going to die than people manage to do to themselves with home appliances in a year, honest to God threat. Once the threat is determined it should be eliminated without discusions, negotiations, economic sanctions, UN resolutions, Shock and Awe, Occupation, or Nation Building. Turn the whole place into a glass parking lot and get back to our own affairs. Once people realize we meen business there'll be far less nonsense coming from petty regimes that can handle things in their own backyards.
Number 4 yes, I agree, accept it would be called the Department of We are going to Remove your Ass from the Face of the Earth, as it should be, not some feel good title like "Defense". If you manage to provoke us enough that we call these guys, people should be very affraid, and the aftermath should be something that would make even the Devil cringe.
Number 5. We I think if you meen by reparations as in a sucker punch in the face or a wack in the head with a stick then yes, reparations all around. Stupid people should never be rewarded for doing stupid things, like living BELOW sea level and then actually having the nerve to bitch about a little rain. By the same token all the government officials that let this go on for as long as it did, the building zoning below sea level part, not FEMA (FEMA actually did what was called by their charter, it wasn't their fault that people at the City and State level had their head up their collective asses.), should be hauled off to prison, one perferedly built in the 9th ward, so they can experience first hand "What no real evacuation plan in effect" means.
You can take a picture of yourself holding a Pepsi, in your Calvin Klein purple underwear, leaning up against a Delorian while holding a poster for Back to the Future and post it for sale and there is little that any of the companies involved can do to you legally other than make threats.
More companies DON'T do this because they would rather continue the fallacy that they actually have iron clad rights to everything.
Companies & cities have tried similar tactics with national landmarks and their buildings, to either gain a revenue stream or prevent anyone else from creating products that might compete with their own projects or be used in lawsuites or public criticism, but again all of them have been tossed out of court.
Copyright only protects their original works, and Trademark only protects their products from duplication or, neither prevent you from making pictures and selling them for profit.
You'd be able to store HD DVD movies on your laptop computers instead of carrying the discs around with you. You'd be able to condense movies into forms storeable on compatible portable video players.
Already can, already do. Both HD & BR schemes have been cracked and easy one button ripping software is available.
The only difference between HD DVD & BR for me is that I'd never be willing to buy any thing from SONY, it'll be rental only just like I do with their movies on DVD now.
I don't feel guilty.
That's funny your comment about power usage, because that's exactly how one of the IT guys got found out by management. He was running seti@home during the night on all the work stations and servers. Finance noticed a jump in the power bill about the same time this guy was brought in to work in their IT section. He was racking up quite a few points for the 3 months or so he was getting away with it.
Yarrrr
Yawn, so that's like what, 100 people bought Apple's in October. Haven't we had a bunch of article float through how the desktop computer was effectively dead in Japan for 90% of the population?
Having Google show you all kinds of things that link back to your identity is a very good thing. After I saw how accurately Google showed how many, and there were many, places my private information was bouncing around the net I was able to quickly pull the plug on every business and social site that was leaking my info.
Now when I do a search I find nothing about myself even after digging through 20 or 30 pages of Google search results.
Now why can't the US government just do a bunch of Google searches for data? Well that's because it's ilegal for them to compile or release information on US citizens outside the scope of the reason it was collected without your consent or without a court order.
Read the Privacy Act of 1974, it very specifically spells out what they can and can't do. One of those things they can't do is create computer data bases that let's them go on "fishing" trips by doing searches in public and private data bases without a court order. Which is exactly what they want to be able to do.
Besides at those altitudes the whole concept of ground and heights becomes more of a theoretical concept rather than a butt puckering reality. You know you are heigh up, but most of your references you're used to associating with hieghts are gone. Same goes for speed. 150mph seems like impending doom behind the wheel of a car. 600mph at 10,000ft seems like a leisurely pace.
Privileged citizen? You mean still living at home?
I don't have a need to compress anything, because I will never burn them back to optical media, and don't see a point of watching movies on a 3" screen. I hate optical media more than you hate MS. HD DVD players are much faster and less quirky than DVD players, since there is only one standard vs. the dozen or so DVD media types, but I've already made the jump to bulk storage and have no intention of going back. I strip all the messages, ads, and menus which saves a little space, but it's more just to reduce annoyance factor than to save any real amount of space.
Building a TB server is no big thing anymore in terms of space or cost. I currently have 1.5tb spread over 6 drives of various size and age. When I do a rebuild this spring it'll jump to 2TB and only be on 2 drives. Sure a server eats up electricity, about $10 a month, but there is a few things my server does that your CD binder does not. First off when it's not in use it runs various programs with BOINC. Cancer, physics, math, and weather research. In reality leaving it on all the time, running both cores at 100%, costs me nothing since it keeps my house warm. Think of it as a space heater that has added bonus of being a media center that also runs research programs on the side. I rarely have to turn on the heat. So my gas bill is quite low. I'm in England, land of no AC, so it doesn't hit me in the summer either.
The really big bonus of running a server, compared to a bunch of discs in a binder, is the fact that I can have access to every piece of media I own, without having to worry about scratched discs, swapping them, or what room of the house I'm in. That and I can surf the net, talk on the phone, play games, listen to music, etc all from the same machine. My PC server is my entertainment center, other than the 40"LCD, speakers, and a couple of couches there is nothing else in my living room. It's all very neat and tidy.
Now the whole Microsoft thing, is a bit childish don't you think? The worse thing these guys have done lately is actually make all the cheap skates get a valid copy of windows. I don't buy the whole MS OS tax argument for new PC's, that's what all of $30? Quit crying and just format the harddrive and put what you want on it already, or better yet build your own. Sure it's not free like Linux (with gaping holes in driver support), or hip (gay) like OSX, and they do dumb stuff like bundle media player, yawn just don't use it, etc with it, but the last time I checked they don't restrict much else of what you want to do unlike other products.
SONY may technically be the lesser of two evils, but it's not for a lack of trying. That and SONY and MS are not the same catagory of evil. Apple would be the more appropriate comparison; proprietary hardware, heavily restricted software, and a large amount of arrogance. Though I will give Apple props since they happen to have some actual technical and marketing skill, and unlike SONY, and deliver a fairly high quality product in exchange for your immortal soul and eternal alligiance.
You must have been born yesterday if you think Sony is the greater of two evils.
I was born in 1971, and have watched SONY long slow slide into mediocrity. (The PS2 being the one bright exception.)
Reason #1:
It's not SONY
Reason #2:
It was the first one I found a sub $200 player that I could hook up to my PC. (Xbox 360 HD DVD drive)
Reason #3:
It was the first that I found a usefull software for ripping and playback. (AnyDVD HD and PowerDVD 7)
Reason #4:
It's not SONY
I think the next leap will be to that configureable keyboard that is out, with every key layed out perfectly for my hand.
No you mean when their data (iTunes library) is stuck down, their credit card bill will get bigger than they could possibly imagine.
Stateside metric is only commonly found in science, weather, fire arms, and beverage products (a large portion of bottles and cans are now standard metric sizes). Outside of that the average American doesn't get much exposure to it.
Not just this country, it'll be nominated for "Best Brick" in Europe as well.