I thought about that as I was posting, and I was careful never to say what I thought was right or wrong. However, most TV shows are still not available on DVD. So no, I dont think it should be illegal. I dont think downloading MP3s should be illegal either. The television broadcast industry and the music industry should look at all these copying methods as free advertisement.
The article said that the supreme court decided people video-taping TV at home was not the same as people downloading from the internet, and I agree with this. Although I think downloading music is a bad thing, it is quite different from video-taping a TV show. Since the TV was pretty much the only means of watching the TV show, if you wanted to watch it at any other time it was impossible. You couldnt go to a store and buy your favorite TV show. However, music is not confined to the radio only. There have been records for a long time, tapes, and now CDs are all over the place. So the argument that you just wanted a more convienent time is bullshit and was a dumb thing to argue.
My two cents: they should have argued that it was boosting sales and that the music industry should just be happy and not shoot itself in the foot.
Why couldnt computers write plays? Wasnt it chaucer or someone who said that there are only like 7 stories anyway? Couldnt a comuputer come up with new and interesting plot lines & twists? Add in some really advanced computer special effects and it can even direct, act, and produce a movie for you. It's really quite imaginable that technology will soon be able to do all the jobs humans currently do, and do them better and faster.
They used a condom. A few of you seem to think it is the Church's fault. She is not religious. Some said that she shouldnt fuck anything that walks. He was the only person she had ever had sex with and it was thier second time.
They did everything 'right', yet she is still going to have a baby.
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Not everyone wants to dedicate the time to go find that music. Not everyone is as into music as you are. I wasnt. I just didnt care. After Napster i started picking up a CD at borders every once and a while when i was there to buy a book. Call it lazy if you will. For some, it's merely a lack of interest.
Ummm, they give pretty good deals and thier extended warranty is just fine. I dont know what your story is but we took a monitor back with no box, no receipt, and the only thing wrong with it was a dead poxel or two. They took it back and gave us our purchase price in credit to go get a new one. I love Best Buy.
Everyone who reads slashdot must have at one point or another had a frustrating expierence with a person who couldnt figure out how to do some simple task on thier computer. You quickly do it for them even if you have never done that specific function before becuase you have at least some rudimentary idea of how programs work. You dont need to know specificaly how to program in some language, but you have some idea of how it is programmed. Thats why you can do it and they cant. They have no idea how it works. It's all a big magic box to them.
Then when someone comes along and simply points that out, you call them an idiot. It's true! In order for people to be better end users they have to have some idea of how and why programs work. Since computers are becoming more and more common in our society today, it isnt a very big leap in logic to assume that people are going to need more and more about how they work.
Grrr, no! There is still friction from the tines on the fork. Try shoving your fork into something at home, and then shake it a bit. A lot of times (I dont know what your stabbing so I cant say always) but a lot of time even with the assitance of gravity the food wont come off. Of course there is friction!
but they are still a long way from navigating complex and unpredictable environments -- something humans and other "biologicals" do all the time without even thinking.
I hate to burst your bubble, but you are thinking when you navigate those environments. It may be at a near unconscious level, but you are thinking and avoiding obstacles.
*sigh*Of course it wasnt a commercial. They needed a geek that was easily introduceable as a major geek. Napster is probably one of the most widely known pieces of software that isnt ridiculous to have him write. They simply needed a computer program that people had heard about that wouldnt be ridiculous for him to have done on his own (like windows or word or something).
Not if you stabbed fast enough! The steak should have enough inertia that it wont accelerate fast enough to get away from the fork before the fork penetrates it. Sort of like spearing a fish in water. There is nothing on the other side of the fish, but the spear goes through if you do it fast enough.
I was always annoyed by this. The fact is that when you buy a hardrive that says 120 gigabytes on the box, and then your computer tells you that it is 112, that is annoying.
I for one, think you are brilliant Krapangor. I wish i still had my mod points so I could mod you funny. Dont worry about all these other idiots who didnt get it.
Of course, this is assuming that your post was supposed to be funny...
Then buy a cheap fuel efficient car and rent for those trips where you NEED a 4 wheel drive vehicle. If you going to call a car a tool, dont tell me you need a hammer on the end of your drill.
GEE, I didnt know clouds have mass... and big ones weigh a lot??? Wow. But please, give me a measurent I can understand. How many kittens does a cloud weigh? I've never picked up an elephant.
Other than a few media clips the CD doesnt contain anything different from a normal newspaper. I think distributing the same thing in two mediums is annoying. I either want to read the paper, or watch a video. The short clips on the CD are easily available online too. The only place it makes sense to me to put a CD is on computer or game magazines where the CD content (game demos and apps) cannot be duplicated by 'traditional' means. Adding a CD to the paper makes it clumsy.
Be very polite. Thats the biggest thing. Tell the person that their request just isnt feasible at this point in time. If they are persistant, recomend a temporary solution to thier problem. If they still arent satisfied, get technical with why you cant help them. They will get confused and then leave you alone. If that still doesnt work, they probably have a reputation for being whiny, so just tell them its impossible and leave it at that.
Sorry buddy, it wont work. I had to deal with this problems MONTHS ago with my Sprint PCS phone. I had been getting a trickle of these... maybe one every two days. Then one day they started coming in like crazy. I had was getting like 3 or more a day. I became so infurriated that I called sprint FROM CLASS to yell at them about it. It took them an HOUR AND A HALF to deal with me and the end result was 'we cant turn off the service' and they would take the charges off my bill for me. I really could care less about that. I care much more about my time and trouble for having to check my phone when I get these things. Sprint was completely unhelpful. In fact, I think I'm gonna call them. (It got better for a while and now its gotten bad again).
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I thought about that as I was posting, and I was careful never to say what I thought was right or wrong. However, most TV shows are still not available on DVD. So no, I dont think it should be illegal. I dont think downloading MP3s should be illegal either. The television broadcast industry and the music industry should look at all these copying methods as free advertisement.
The article said that the supreme court decided people video-taping TV at home was not the same as people downloading from the internet, and I agree with this. Although I think downloading music is a bad thing, it is quite different from video-taping a TV show. Since the TV was pretty much the only means of watching the TV show, if you wanted to watch it at any other time it was impossible. You couldnt go to a store and buy your favorite TV show. However, music is not confined to the radio only. There have been records for a long time, tapes, and now CDs are all over the place. So the argument that you just wanted a more convienent time is bullshit and was a dumb thing to argue.
My two cents: they should have argued that it was boosting sales and that the music industry should just be happy and not shoot itself in the foot.
I knew a girl who liked to come over to my house and watch lesbian porn with me. I wish I still knew her =/
Umm, .com is short for .commercial... not company.
Just being picky =)
Why couldnt computers write plays? Wasnt it chaucer or someone who said that there are only like 7 stories anyway? Couldnt a comuputer come up with new and interesting plot lines & twists? Add in some really advanced computer special effects and it can even direct, act, and produce a movie for you. It's really quite imaginable that technology will soon be able to do all the jobs humans currently do, and do them better and faster.
They used a condom. A few of you seem to think it is the Church's fault. She is not religious. Some said that she shouldnt fuck anything that walks. He was the only person she had ever had sex with and it was thier second time. They did everything 'right', yet she is still going to have a baby.
Not everyone wants to dedicate the time to go find that music. Not everyone is as into music as you are. I wasnt. I just didnt care. After Napster i started picking up a CD at borders every once and a while when i was there to buy a book. Call it lazy if you will. For some, it's merely a lack of interest.
Ummm, they give pretty good deals and thier extended warranty is just fine. I dont know what your story is but we took a monitor back with no box, no receipt, and the only thing wrong with it was a dead poxel or two. They took it back and gave us our purchase price in credit to go get a new one. I love Best Buy.
Tell that to my fifteen year old pregnant friend.
Everyone who reads slashdot must have at one point or another had a frustrating expierence with a person who couldnt figure out how to do some simple task on thier computer. You quickly do it for them even if you have never done that specific function before becuase you have at least some rudimentary idea of how programs work. You dont need to know specificaly how to program in some language, but you have some idea of how it is programmed. Thats why you can do it and they cant. They have no idea how it works. It's all a big magic box to them.
Then when someone comes along and simply points that out, you call them an idiot. It's true! In order for people to be better end users they have to have some idea of how and why programs work. Since computers are becoming more and more common in our society today, it isnt a very big leap in logic to assume that people are going to need more and more about how they work.
Grrr, no! There is still friction from the tines on the fork. Try shoving your fork into something at home, and then shake it a bit. A lot of times (I dont know what your stabbing so I cant say always) but a lot of time even with the assitance of gravity the food wont come off. Of course there is friction!
but they are still a long way from navigating complex and unpredictable environments -- something humans and other "biologicals" do all the time without even thinking.
I hate to burst your bubble, but you are thinking when you navigate those environments. It may be at a near unconscious level, but you are thinking and avoiding obstacles.
I have three pedals in my car and eight buttons on my mouse. I sure am an odd duck.
Read the first chapter.
Michael Moore's Book: Stupid White Men
*sigh*Of course it wasnt a commercial. They needed a geek that was easily introduceable as a major geek. Napster is probably one of the most widely known pieces of software that isnt ridiculous to have him write. They simply needed a computer program that people had heard about that wouldnt be ridiculous for him to have done on his own (like windows or word or something).
Not if you stabbed fast enough! The steak should have enough inertia that it wont accelerate fast enough to get away from the fork before the fork penetrates it. Sort of like spearing a fish in water. There is nothing on the other side of the fish, but the spear goes through if you do it fast enough.
I was always annoyed by this. The fact is that when you buy a hardrive that says 120 gigabytes on the box, and then your computer tells you that it is 112, that is annoying.
I for one, think you are brilliant Krapangor. I wish i still had my mod points so I could mod you funny. Dont worry about all these other idiots who didnt get it.
Of course, this is assuming that your post was supposed to be funny...
Then buy a cheap fuel efficient car and rent for those trips where you NEED a 4 wheel drive vehicle. If you going to call a car a tool, dont tell me you need a hammer on the end of your drill.
GEE, I didnt know clouds have mass... and big ones weigh a lot??? Wow. But please, give me a measurent I can understand. How many kittens does a cloud weigh? I've never picked up an elephant.
Other than a few media clips the CD doesnt contain anything different from a normal newspaper. I think distributing the same thing in two mediums is annoying. I either want to read the paper, or watch a video. The short clips on the CD are easily available online too. The only place it makes sense to me to put a CD is on computer or game magazines where the CD content (game demos and apps) cannot be duplicated by 'traditional' means. Adding a CD to the paper makes it clumsy.
Be very polite. Thats the biggest thing. Tell the person that their request just isnt feasible at this point in time. If they are persistant, recomend a temporary solution to thier problem. If they still arent satisfied, get technical with why you cant help them. They will get confused and then leave you alone. If that still doesnt work, they probably have a reputation for being whiny, so just tell them its impossible and leave it at that.
*shakes head*
Inconcievable.
Sorry buddy, it wont work. I had to deal with this problems MONTHS ago with my Sprint PCS phone. I had been getting a trickle of these... maybe one every two days. Then one day they started coming in like crazy. I had was getting like 3 or more a day. I became so infurriated that I called sprint FROM CLASS to yell at them about it. It took them an HOUR AND A HALF to deal with me and the end result was 'we cant turn off the service' and they would take the charges off my bill for me. I really could care less about that. I care much more about my time and trouble for having to check my phone when I get these things. Sprint was completely unhelpful. In fact, I think I'm gonna call them. (It got better for a while and now its gotten bad again).
*squints eyes and looks around*
I bet that evil TiVo is somehow behind this...