You don't know what fair use is. Recording off the radio "is" fair use. Making burned copies of songs from CD's you own "is" fair use. Copying songs you have not bought "is not" fair use.
Forget legality for a minute. What is the moral thing to do? Did you notice the word "fair" in that phrase?
What the hell does legality have to do with it? Ever consider doing the right thing? What if you were a recording artist?
Besides all that, iTMS is convenient while making you feel good about supporting the artists. Are you so amoral and cheap that you would not pay a penny short of loonie for a song to keep? People give more than that somtimes to buskers on the street.
Consider that a song costs less than a hamburger at McDonald's or about the same as a slice of pizza at those cheap pizza joints.
That is bullshit. None of that CD-R levy money makes it through the bureaucracy to the artists/label. It all gets eaten by costs of administration by the government. It's nothing but a tax grab and the government gives the appearance of being tough on piracy. Like the songs? Support the artists by buying songs legally. CD-R levies don't give squat to the artists.
Don't give me the, it's legal horse shit. Are those people on P2p close personal friends or family? No? Then don't share with them.
The intelligence community (NSA,MI5,CIA,CSIS) all use and recommend Mac OS X to any one who asks them.
I'm sure they use linux too but OS X provides a secure environment and free GUI development tools that are easy to use (X-code (formerly Project builder which came from OpenStep/NextStep) and Interface builder (which started out on NeXTStep).
Do the math. Even if we mined all the Helium 3 we could with our current technology, the mass of the moon would not change enough to affect the moon in any significant way. In fact, the moon is moving way from use right now. Lowering it's mass might help to stabilize its orbit. But I doubt we would be able to mine fast enough to affect the orbit in a positive way.
The something everyone including yourself is overlooking would be the "facts".
Sure but look at the other players. They were big, bulky and ugly.
WTF where the guys at Archos smoking? Who wants to carry around a big rectangle that looks like it has a bunch of floatation devices attached to the corners? Those things were so big that you could not put them in your pocket and those damn things on the corners did not help matters. They all screamed "geek".
"The company's delivery of contract-manufactured products would remain intact, as the issue will not impact clients, such as Apple Computer Inc, Chang said."
What does their LCD monitors have to do with it? You do know that they will drive any DVI or VGA display don't you?
If you compare laptops feature for feature, the mac will either be cheaper or around the same price as the PC but it will have a bunch of bundled software. If you added the equivilent bundled software to the PC laptop, it will be much more expensive than the mac laptop and it will not integrate with each other like iLife apps would.
I spent years in technical support and I develop win32 applications for a living. I sure as hell am not going to be technical support for my mom with some PC running windows.
Sorry but linux is not easy to use as a desktop.
I'm going to set her up with my old eMac with Panther and 1GB Ram on it and load Office for Mac 2004. We can get a.MAC account for her to setup and share photos with relatives and use the Virex anti-virus software to protect the windows owning relatives for macro viruses in office documents she might send/receive.
Oh and all this crap about software not updating. I call bullshit. I've only had that happen to me with the IM manager proteus because I had not kept up to date with it but that was only with the check for updates function. Installing an updated version is as simple as going to the website and downloading the dmg disk image and dragging the app package into the Applications directory.
No problems with printers either, you don't need to have a desktop printer to print from applications.
Ah yes, the old "Nicene council rewrote the gospels under the direction of Constantine troll".
A few problems exist with your conspiracy theory.
1. The gospels were written down "before" the council of Nicene and we still have the manuscripts from "before" the council.
3. Many of those "apocryphal" books are available to be read by anyone who wishes to view them. If you did read them, you would see why they were not canonized as they did not "fit" in with general theme of the gospels and the epistles from the "apostles". Those epistles were written down before the end of the first century and are in agreement with the core of the four gospels.
As for why you are not a christian, stop using this a crutch. I'm sure there is some other shit in your life that you are dealing with. Please don't try to fool yourself into believing that excuse.
I don't see how you can say there are lies and half truths when you have no "evidence" to back up your claims. See above about why certain books were not canonized. Were you there are the council? Do you know someone who was or are you relying on some crackpot armchair scholar's conspiracy theories? Did you read the fictitious "Davinci Code" too many times?
Would including the dragon story in the book of Daniel made it more believable for you? Come on. Face the heart of the matter and stop using these "excuses". If you are truly an intellectually honest person, you would take another "deep" look into why you believe/disbelieve what you do rather than using these weak excuses/rhetoric as your "reason".
Ah yes, the classic "bible translated so many times" troll.
You do realize that modern translations are derived from the oldest hebrew and greek texts we have do you not? They also use the dead sea scrolls as a reference now when performing translations.
If you look at any modern translation (ie NIV), you will see what the translators thought was the correct word to fit in context of the passage. Where there is disagreement (usually slight variation/synonym of the same word), a foot note will be present at the bottom of the page listing the possible variations and sometimes and explanation of why they chose a particular version of the verse. There is no great conspiracy to hide things and the translators of the major modern translations are not tied to any specific denomination's view point/doctrine.
I hope you educate yourself rather than continue to live in ignorance. After all, ignorance breeds fear and intolerance.
First, give us a reliable source. Wikipedia is about as reliable as a supermarket tabloid.
Second, refute the archeological "physical" evidence discovered quite recently which seems to back up many of the stories in the bible with regard to the fate of certain cites which were the sites of key events in the bible. Many of these ancient cities have recently been uncovered cities in the mid-east. I'm talking about cities directly related to Abraham and his relatives (Lot). They have also discovered ruins of Jericho (where the walls fell).
Please stop trolling and provide some facts to backup your claims from reliable sources.
I don' use Winamp as I'm a mac user but i don't understand the mad rush to look for a replacement. Is the current version you are using stable? Does it still work? Then what is the problem?
You don't have to worry as long as you and your wife have separate accounts and you set your permissions right on your porn directory under your user directory.
So what you are saying is science is conducted based on one's own beliefs and preconscieved ideas? I'm not suggesting the scientific community pour millions of dollars on dubious pursuits but an honest "search" for evidence should be conducted.
People say there is no evidence but what of the other studies in other countries? Do they have no merit because they were not conducted on US soil?
Any scientist worth anything would at least look for some evidence for or against rather than dismissing out of hand like the lot of you.
I'm quite frankly tired of the hypocrisy I see on./. On the one hand you accuse the christian right of being bigoted or closed minded while in the same breath demonstrate how close minded and bigoted you are.
Want to see who you are complaining about? Look in the mirror.
Science is supposed to be a tool for discovery, not a religion like some of you make it out to be.
Is aids research a waste of money because no cure has been found yet? Are all studies that reach a dead end a waste of money or do they provide us with valuable insight?
Any foreign exchange broker offering foreign exchange services prior to the filing date of this would have prior art.
My employer was conducting foreign exchange over a network over two years before this stupid patent was filed and doing internet transactions over a year before the patent was granted.
Your patent office is very dangerous and should be closed down and audited.
In the end, the open source BSD and Mac OS X came out on top with the fewest security breaches against permanently connected machines worldwide in homes, small businesses, large enterprises and governments.
This was a study of servers connected to the net in businesses of all sizes and government as well as home run "servers" or possibly desktop machines directly connected to the net without a router/firewall. It was not a study of desktops infected by viruses, trojans or backdoor trojans malware like back orifice.
People who connect their home machines directly to the internet with broadband are idiots just asking for trouble. You should at a bare minimum invest in a hardware firewall/internet router. You can pick one up for about 50 USD or less these days and you get the added avantage of being able to share your broadband with other computers in your home.
I have to shake my head when I see people on broadband either relying on the XP firewall or some other software firewall.
Does it really matter than there are a lot more games for windows? When was the last time you found a game with genuine playability and staying power? The only games I can think of that have a lot of that have mac ports and a lot of mods to go along with them.
eg. WarCraft III & Frozen Throne (ported at the same time to both windows and mac, UT2k3, UT2k4, RTCW to name a few.
We get some really good games on the mac ported over or developed concurrently with the windows versions.
Admittedly, Mac Halo sucked before several patches were applied and some other ports really suck but I don't really care too much about games on the mac. I have a Game Cube for games and only need a few games to play while I'm on the road with my laptop.
The funny thing is I've been able to start churning out a lot more graphics, music, movies and DVD's on the mac than I every did on the PC because I'm not playing some mindless mediocre windows game or trying to keep windows running smoothly.
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Forget legality for a minute. What is the moral thing to do? Did you notice the word "fair" in that phrase?
Besides all that, iTMS is convenient while making you feel good about supporting the artists. Are you so amoral and cheap that you would not pay a penny short of loonie for a song to keep? People give more than that somtimes to buskers on the street.
Consider that a song costs less than a hamburger at McDonald's or about the same as a slice of pizza at those cheap pizza joints.
Don't give me the, it's legal horse shit. Are those people on P2p close personal friends or family? No? Then don't share with them.
What if you include all of those Canadians living in LA?
I'm sure they use linux too but OS X provides a secure environment and free GUI development tools that are easy to use (X-code (formerly Project builder which came from OpenStep/NextStep) and Interface builder (which started out on NeXTStep).
The something everyone including yourself is overlooking would be the "facts".
I believe that the HE3 on the moon will be the catalyst for the eventual colonization of the Moon and Teraforming/colonization of Mars.
WTF where the guys at Archos smoking? Who wants to carry around a big rectangle that looks like it has a bunch of floatation devices attached to the corners? Those things were so big that you could not put them in your pocket and those damn things on the corners did not help matters. They all screamed "geek".
Got it?
If you compare laptops feature for feature, the mac will either be cheaper or around the same price as the PC but it will have a bunch of bundled software. If you added the equivilent bundled software to the PC laptop, it will be much more expensive than the mac laptop and it will not integrate with each other like iLife apps would.
Sorry but linux is not easy to use as a desktop.
I'm going to set her up with my old eMac with Panther and 1GB Ram on it and load Office for Mac 2004. We can get a .MAC account for her to setup and share photos with relatives and use the Virex anti-virus software to protect the windows owning relatives for macro viruses in office documents she might send/receive.
Oh and all this crap about software not updating. I call bullshit. I've only had that happen to me with the IM manager proteus because I had not kept up to date with it but that was only with the check for updates function. Installing an updated version is as simple as going to the website and downloading the dmg disk image and dragging the app package into the Applications directory.
No problems with printers either, you don't need to have a desktop printer to print from applications.
A few problems exist with your conspiracy theory.
1. The gospels were written down "before" the council of Nicene and we still have the manuscripts from "before" the council.
3. Many of those "apocryphal" books are available to be read by anyone who wishes to view them. If you did read them, you would see why they were not canonized as they did not "fit" in with general theme of the gospels and the epistles from the "apostles". Those epistles were written down before the end of the first century and are in agreement with the core of the four gospels.
As for why you are not a christian, stop using this a crutch. I'm sure there is some other shit in your life that you are dealing with. Please don't try to fool yourself into believing that excuse.
I don't see how you can say there are lies and half truths when you have no "evidence" to back up your claims. See above about why certain books were not canonized. Were you there are the council? Do you know someone who was or are you relying on some crackpot armchair scholar's conspiracy theories? Did you read the fictitious "Davinci Code" too many times?
Would including the dragon story in the book of Daniel made it more believable for you? Come on. Face the heart of the matter and stop using these "excuses". If you are truly an intellectually honest person, you would take another "deep" look into why you believe/disbelieve what you do rather than using these weak excuses/rhetoric as your "reason".
Yeah, and there was none of that in the socialist paradise of the former soviet union which effectively outlawed religion... out wait.
Yes but GIMP has an even higher learning curve than Photoshop and lacks some important features.
You do realize that modern translations are derived from the oldest hebrew and greek texts we have do you not? They also use the dead sea scrolls as a reference now when performing translations.
If you look at any modern translation (ie NIV), you will see what the translators thought was the correct word to fit in context of the passage. Where there is disagreement (usually slight variation/synonym of the same word), a foot note will be present at the bottom of the page listing the possible variations and sometimes and explanation of why they chose a particular version of the verse. There is no great conspiracy to hide things and the translators of the major modern translations are not tied to any specific denomination's view point/doctrine.
I hope you educate yourself rather than continue to live in ignorance. After all, ignorance breeds fear and intolerance.
Second, refute the archeological "physical" evidence discovered quite recently which seems to back up many of the stories in the bible with regard to the fate of certain cites which were the sites of key events in the bible. Many of these ancient cities have recently been uncovered cities in the mid-east. I'm talking about cities directly related to Abraham and his relatives (Lot). They have also discovered ruins of Jericho (where the walls fell).
Please stop trolling and provide some facts to backup your claims from reliable sources.
I don' use Winamp as I'm a mac user but i don't understand the mad rush to look for a replacement. Is the current version you are using stable? Does it still work? Then what is the problem?
You don't have to worry as long as you and your wife have separate accounts and you set your permissions right on your porn directory under your user directory.
So what you are saying is science is conducted based on one's own beliefs and preconscieved ideas? I'm not suggesting the scientific community pour millions of dollars on dubious pursuits but an honest "search" for evidence should be conducted. People say there is no evidence but what of the other studies in other countries? Do they have no merit because they were not conducted on US soil?
I'm quite frankly tired of the hypocrisy I see on ./. On the one hand you accuse the christian right of being bigoted or closed minded while in the same breath demonstrate how close minded and bigoted you are.
Want to see who you are complaining about? Look in the mirror.
Science is supposed to be a tool for discovery, not a religion like some of you make it out to be.
Is aids research a waste of money because no cure has been found yet? Are all studies that reach a dead end a waste of money or do they provide us with valuable insight?
My employer was conducting foreign exchange over a network over two years before this stupid patent was filed and doing internet transactions over a year before the patent was granted.
Your patent office is very dangerous and should be closed down and audited.
You can pick up an iBook from Amazon for 850 after the 150 dollar mail in rebate.
This was a study of servers connected to the net in businesses of all sizes and government as well as home run "servers" or possibly desktop machines directly connected to the net without a router/firewall. It was not a study of desktops infected by viruses, trojans or backdoor trojans malware like back orifice.
People who connect their home machines directly to the internet with broadband are idiots just asking for trouble. You should at a bare minimum invest in a hardware firewall/internet router. You can pick one up for about 50 USD or less these days and you get the added avantage of being able to share your broadband with other computers in your home.
I have to shake my head when I see people on broadband either relying on the XP firewall or some other software firewall.
I don't think this would have been a study of "desktops" but rather servers.
I wonder what the market share for "server" is for windows, linux and the BSD variants.
eg. WarCraft III & Frozen Throne (ported at the same time to both windows and mac, UT2k3, UT2k4, RTCW to name a few.
We get some really good games on the mac ported over or developed concurrently with the windows versions.
Admittedly, Mac Halo sucked before several patches were applied and some other ports really suck but I don't really care too much about games on the mac. I have a Game Cube for games and only need a few games to play while I'm on the road with my laptop.
The funny thing is I've been able to start churning out a lot more graphics, music, movies and DVD's on the mac than I every did on the PC because I'm not playing some mindless mediocre windows game or trying to keep windows running smoothly.