I agree with you on the menu bar. Once upon a time, when screens were tiny, it made sense for all apps to share that space. But with the resolution on today's larger monitors, the menu bar is a hindrance. For example, I have a 21" widescreen that I plug into my powerbook. This means that if I have an apple app on the second monitor, I may have to traverse a yard of space to get to the "file" menu option.
For the most part, I use the second monitor for running X apps (remote over SSH). Because the menu bar is built into each application window with these, it's of no concern that monitor is rather wide. In contrast, I've played around with a 30" monitor at an Apple store -- it feels like your walking across Kansas to get from the bottom right corner to the upper left. Apple should give users the option of having the menu bar appear in the application window. That would satisfy the old schoolers who're still sporting 800x600 monitors, and yet allow people with some extra screen real estate to cut down on their mouse travel time. With large monitors growing ever more affordable, there's sure to be a lot more people who start noticing the menu bar silliness.
Interesting? What a bunch of crap U3 is. I recently bought a 4gb USB device -- says on the back it works w/ Max/Linux/Windows. When I stuck it in my powerbook, I get the drive plus a "CD" with three installers on it. Ok I thought, I'll just reformat. Didn't fix it. So I decided I'd use a linux box to reformat -- can't do it. The partition looks like a read-only CD-ROM. After some googling, it turns out there is a program from U3 to eliminate this fake CD partition -- of course the crap only works with windows. I don't have a windows box -- I tried fixing it on a friends machine, he has parallels and XP, but the damn thing wouldn't even mount on the windows box. Somewhere between my friend's office and mine, I lost the USB device. I lost the USB device because I hadn't put it on my key ring. I didn't put in my keyring because the U3 crap made the device perform annoyingly.
The U3 developers are retards. The highest demand to remove their crap is probably from non-windows users. So they go and release a windows only removal solution. I had never heard of U3 before and I hope they die a slow painful death in bankruptcy.
In what country are the leaders NOT kleptocrats? The only difference between leaders is that some are more adept at hiding the loot than others.
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How about a new election? Eventually, we'd get down to one based on issues, not money, because two or three failed elections over a short period would financially bankrupt both major political parties (they're already morally bankrupt, financial bankruptcy might help correct things).
You're lucky to just get junk mail. Some guy turned up at my door the other night trying to get me to spend $100/month on net/tv/phone. I told him I use my cell phone and don't watch TV so I'm not interested. He still tried to run his pitch.
It's even worse where I'm at. My choice is comcast or dialup. I've never in my life been a satisfied comcast customer -- I've been a customer because I have no other realistic choice.
Stuff doesn't stay online forever, but Usenet.com offers something like 150 days of retention, which is quite a while. Other usenet servers offer even more, e.g., Giganews offers 200 days on binaries and up to 1500 days on text.
The Wired article has a link to the actual lawsuit in PDF format. It actually makes an interesting read.
Except the don't have to pay room and board while locked up. Granted, the 5 years will suck, but when they get out, they'll have a chunk of change most people will only ever dream about. That's why I think the headline could increase the number of spammers. There are lots of people with no better hopes than that.
At $600k profit after the fine, that works out to $120k per year in jail. Split between them, that's $60k each per year. Not stellar pay, but not terrible either. Plenty of people would love to make that amount. If they invest their money while in the slammer, they should have a decent chunk when they get out (if they earn 5% per year, about $380k on graduation from prison each).
In other words, I don't know if there is much deterrent value here. To someone making $15k per year at a crumby job, the risk/reward analysis will probably fall into the pro-spamming category. In fact, the whole headline may simply work to attract more spammers, at least those who don't see the "punishment" as being all that harsh, so that we get more than two replacements for the vacancy left by this pair.
Personally, I think that this plan is great, I hope it works well, because I am fed up with the music industry at large.
Yeah -- since this is by the industry, wait till you see the price. It'll probably be something like $150 + ($1.50 * song_capacity). So for a 1gb device (240 songs), expect to pay $510. The next question to answer is whether you can replace songs. I'd expect it would be a one-way deal -- once you load it, you own it, and can't replace it. If the songs are replaceable, they'd soon run out of the ability to price gouge.
Well, there's Ron Paul. I'd love to vote for him except he is pretty far right religion wise. It is untrue though to say all republicans support the war. Unlike Hillary, RP voted against giving Bush Carte Blanche in Iraq, and has always been an outspoken critic of the war.
I think it will be a very, very long time before I can vote for a Republican again, and only if the party can clean house
Politics in general is in trouble for the next election. I've never voted Republican in my life, but if that war hawk Hillary is put on the Democratic ticket, I just might. If the democrats go for a person who is the absolute epitome of a lying calculating politician -- and by "politician" I mean that in the truest form of the definition (synonym for "f_____ worthless piece of rotting dog s_____"), I'll vote republican so long as the guy isn't too bought out by the religious right. If he is, then I'll vote libertarian. If no libertarian, then I'll vote Mickey Mouse. The Democrats are being stupid -- easy win with a reasonable candidate.
I'd vote for Ron Paul if he wasn't a religious conservative (with accompanying baggage). I'm really hoping there will be a true libertarian on the ballot next time around, or at least a NOTA option.
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Huh? Do you have all four wheels on the ground here?
I agree with you on the menu bar. Once upon a time, when screens were tiny, it made sense for all apps to share that space. But with the resolution on today's larger monitors, the menu bar is a hindrance. For example, I have a 21" widescreen that I plug into my powerbook. This means that if I have an apple app on the second monitor, I may have to traverse a yard of space to get to the "file" menu option.
For the most part, I use the second monitor for running X apps (remote over SSH). Because the menu bar is built into each application window with these, it's of no concern that monitor is rather wide. In contrast, I've played around with a 30" monitor at an Apple store -- it feels like your walking across Kansas to get from the bottom right corner to the upper left. Apple should give users the option of having the menu bar appear in the application window. That would satisfy the old schoolers who're still sporting 800x600 monitors, and yet allow people with some extra screen real estate to cut down on their mouse travel time. With large monitors growing ever more affordable, there's sure to be a lot more people who start noticing the menu bar silliness.
Interesting? What a bunch of crap U3 is. I recently bought a 4gb USB device -- says on the back it works w/ Max/Linux/Windows. When I stuck it in my powerbook, I get the drive plus a "CD" with three installers on it. Ok I thought, I'll just reformat. Didn't fix it. So I decided I'd use a linux box to reformat -- can't do it. The partition looks like a read-only CD-ROM. After some googling, it turns out there is a program from U3 to eliminate this fake CD partition -- of course the crap only works with windows. I don't have a windows box -- I tried fixing it on a friends machine, he has parallels and XP, but the damn thing wouldn't even mount on the windows box. Somewhere between my friend's office and mine, I lost the USB device. I lost the USB device because I hadn't put it on my key ring. I didn't put in my keyring because the U3 crap made the device perform annoyingly.
The U3 developers are retards. The highest demand to remove their crap is probably from non-windows users. So they go and release a windows only removal solution. I had never heard of U3 before and I hope they die a slow painful death in bankruptcy.
Wow -- how surprising. First troll is a bushie.
Internet radio with only non-riaa bands to avoid the whole ludicrous licensing fee issue?
yes -- after I posted I realized my sarcasm was misdirected.
In what country are the leaders NOT kleptocrats? The only difference between leaders is that some are more adept at hiding the loot than others.
How about a new election? Eventually, we'd get down to one based on issues, not money, because two or three failed elections over a short period would financially bankrupt both major political parties (they're already morally bankrupt, financial bankruptcy might help correct things).
You're lucky to just get junk mail. Some guy turned up at my door the other night trying to get me to spend $100/month on net/tv/phone. I told him I use my cell phone and don't watch TV so I'm not interested. He still tried to run his pitch.
It's even worse where I'm at. My choice is comcast or dialup. I've never in my life been a satisfied comcast customer -- I've been a customer because I have no other realistic choice.
Is Nate Baldwin part of this lawfirm? Is this something they copied of his? If so, isn't it rather wrong to attempt to copyright another's work?
I tried to not look, but my default browser is curl. I'm screwed!
The exhibits to the lawsuit filing show their ad for 150 days of retention. They probably changed things post-lawsuit.
Stuff doesn't stay online forever, but Usenet.com offers something like 150 days of retention, which is quite a while. Other usenet servers offer even more, e.g., Giganews offers 200 days on binaries and up to 1500 days on text.
The Wired article has a link to the actual lawsuit in PDF format. It actually makes an interesting read.
Except the don't have to pay room and board while locked up. Granted, the 5 years will suck, but when they get out, they'll have a chunk of change most people will only ever dream about. That's why I think the headline could increase the number of spammers. There are lots of people with no better hopes than that.
At $600k profit after the fine, that works out to $120k per year in jail. Split between them, that's $60k each per year. Not stellar pay, but not terrible either. Plenty of people would love to make that amount. If they invest their money while in the slammer, they should have a decent chunk when they get out (if they earn 5% per year, about $380k on graduation from prison each).
In other words, I don't know if there is much deterrent value here. To someone making $15k per year at a crumby job, the risk/reward analysis will probably fall into the pro-spamming category. In fact, the whole headline may simply work to attract more spammers, at least those who don't see the "punishment" as being all that harsh, so that we get more than two replacements for the vacancy left by this pair.
Yeah -- since this is by the industry, wait till you see the price. It'll probably be something like $150 + ($1.50 * song_capacity). So for a 1gb device (240 songs), expect to pay $510. The next question to answer is whether you can replace songs. I'd expect it would be a one-way deal -- once you load it, you own it, and can't replace it. If the songs are replaceable, they'd soon run out of the ability to price gouge.
Well, there's Ron Paul. I'd love to vote for him except he is pretty far right religion wise. It is untrue though to say all republicans support the war. Unlike Hillary, RP voted against giving Bush Carte Blanche in Iraq, and has always been an outspoken critic of the war.
Politics in general is in trouble for the next election. I've never voted Republican in my life, but if that war hawk Hillary is put on the Democratic ticket, I just might. If the democrats go for a person who is the absolute epitome of a lying calculating politician -- and by "politician" I mean that in the truest form of the definition (synonym for "f_____ worthless piece of rotting dog s_____"), I'll vote republican so long as the guy isn't too bought out by the religious right. If he is, then I'll vote libertarian. If no libertarian, then I'll vote Mickey Mouse. The Democrats are being stupid -- easy win with a reasonable candidate.
I'd vote for Ron Paul if he wasn't a religious conservative (with accompanying baggage). I'm really hoping there will be a true libertarian on the ballot next time around, or at least a NOTA option.
Actually, it seems it was Thomas' defense which was slightly less plausible than the Chewbacca defense.
This isn't a criminal trial. There is no sentence.
When the hell is someone going to sue the idiots with the car stereos I can hear a mile away?!!!
Damn right -- get the hell off my lawn.
Fuck NBC.