I would recomend "The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Kerzweil. It deals with this issues much better. The Ringworld series is good, but I found the Mars books really really boring.
And we all know that virus scanners NEVER fail to catch things. I've "helped" on computer that were running virus scanners and still had tons of trojans and ad-ware. Some the people didn't know they needed to update the software (in one case the definition file was like 3 years old). Where's the "check engine" light on my PC? It's not always that easy.
Or you can just pick out all the silver coins or what i like to call "the real coins" and then just leave the pennies or "fake coins" in a jar somewhere until you want to piss off a store clerk.....:)
Well just try and copy a DVD to a VHS so that you can play it somewhere you have a vcr but not a DVD player! Fair use is slowy becomming a thing of the past. It's not illegal for you to make a VHS copy of a DVD, just illegal to break the copy protection to do it. There's no fair-use there. I can't even make a back up copy of a DVD for use on a portable DVD player. If it's in the portable player and gets scratched when the car/plane/train causes it to get josteled....your out. You have to once again pay the copyholder for the information on the disk while buing a new on. Same with alot of software....what happens when a disk gets scratched and cannot be repaired? Fair use is a great thing, however it has been going away, and in another couple of years it will be a useless concept in legal terms. Well come to the 21st century....where yes you will need to pay a fee for every pair of ears and eyes at your party per note/pixel.
I can see it now, 3 cable companies, 3 telephone compaines, 2 power companies, and god knows who else ALL have wires on the poles, i bet none of them would "acidently" break a competitor's lines while doing "routine maintenance". A pole gets knocked over by a car crash and now 5 - 10 compaines are all out there trying to figure out how to get all their guys up the new pole at once to re-atach everything. It would be a real mess.
Maybe it's because people use the web for shoping, i would bet that average joe user uses the net for:
#1: E-mail
#2: Shopping
Is it wrong that google's results would reflect this?
I have run into the problem as recently as last winter. They asked for a phone number, i gave them my cell and they said since that was a cell and they therefor couldn't verify the address that deleviry was unavaliable. I guess that some areas are more "tech friendly" then others. Good to know that there is progress being made.
However most pizza places wnat a landline number (won't deliver to a cell number), FedEx and UPS require a landline number to do pickups (at least they did the last time i used that, it's been ~10 months so this might be different. Haveing a landline is a good thing, turning off the ringer is an even better thing.:)
However this is NOT a criminal suit, it's a CIVIL case. There's no "acessory to the crime" in civil cases one is either liable for the damages or they are not, and i could see people getting off with this defense. it might not work, but only time, and lawsuits will tell.
Remember though that this is a CIVIL trial, not a criminal. In civil trial's things like ignorance go a lot further then in criminal trials. This would at the very least make the RIAA's "burden of proof" harder to meet.
I'm use that companies like Linksys, D-Link, NetGear, Intel, Apple, Dell, and others would fight regulation of 802.11 VERY quickly.
Hmmm....i wonder if the "I didn't know how to secure my wireless network...it MUST have been my neighbor" defense is going to become popular soon?!? :)
If that works, great. Just for a sanity check. Are you able to run office/photoshop ect in OSX or is it a dual boot? If they run in OSX did you have to do anything special to get them to work? I am NOT a mac person, however i have several friends that are. They have all seemed to have problems running older software. It might be because they are mostly art-types, but it would be nice to know.
Thanks.
Um much of the "old" Max software won't run under OSX. I have friends who have been told by Apple to dual boot their macs so they can run all their "old" software while they buy new copies. I know a Mac user *warning what follows is second hand knowledge* who wanted to move to OSX but would have needed to re-buy Office, Photoshop, and several other programs that would have cost as much as a new mac.
That's the dangers of making a comment like "fastest PC on earth"......it's a claim that one has to be VERY careful about making. Especiall when some of the benchmarks were pretty close and people had been saying for 2 weeks that the 3.2 were comming out that day. Apple SHOULD have known better.
I find their data honest, but their claim to be bull. Look at their numbers they are comparing the G5 to the P4 3.0 and Xeon 3.06. What about the new 3.2's? What about an AMD or two? What about an Opteron (another 64-bit machine)? Their numbers a great and clear, but they are also very meaning less.
like I don't help people at work who have problems with Windows even though I am an expert.
So, if one of your Co-workers is have a problem (meaning a loss of productivity) and even if you KNOW how to fix the problem wuickly and easily you are going to make them use IT (which usually takes time) or MS Tech. Support. You would CHOOSE to hurt your company, talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Actually no. The issue was this: RIAA: Give Us the Names! Verizon: Give Us a court order signed by a judge and we will. RIAA: We don't need on, just a motion to file, which is signed by a clerk. Verizon: You need a judge's sig. RIAA: Nope
THEN Verison went to court and they fought over it. The judge ruled that the way the law is written RIAA was right, only a court clerk's sig in needed, NOT a judge. That law applies to everyone, and now a judge has clarified the wording with a ruling. End of line.
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I would recomend "The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Kerzweil. It deals with this issues much better. The Ringworld series is good, but I found the Mars books really really boring.
And we all know that virus scanners NEVER fail to catch things. I've "helped" on computer that were running virus scanners and still had tons of trojans and ad-ware. Some the people didn't know they needed to update the software (in one case the definition file was like 3 years old). Where's the "check engine" light on my PC? It's not always that easy.
They did ask people to contact them, but also they had a bunch of that mail still in the system, and all of that was checked.
Or you can just pick out all the silver coins or what i like to call "the real coins" and then just leave the pennies or "fake coins" in a jar somewhere until you want to piss off a store clerk.....:)
It's only a crime if you destroy money with the INTENT of comming fraud. :) Look for the legal question :)
There's not much in the way of real copper in pennies any more. See here So you'll need pre 1837 pennies to get pure copper!
Well just try and copy a DVD to a VHS so that you can play it somewhere you have a vcr but not a DVD player! Fair use is slowy becomming a thing of the past. It's not illegal for you to make a VHS copy of a DVD, just illegal to break the copy protection to do it. There's no fair-use there. I can't even make a back up copy of a DVD for use on a portable DVD player. If it's in the portable player and gets scratched when the car/plane/train causes it to get josteled....your out. You have to once again pay the copyholder for the information on the disk while buing a new on. Same with alot of software....what happens when a disk gets scratched and cannot be repaired? Fair use is a great thing, however it has been going away, and in another couple of years it will be a useless concept in legal terms. Well come to the 21st century....where yes you will need to pay a fee for every pair of ears and eyes at your party per note/pixel.
All your senses belong to them.
I can see it now, 3 cable companies, 3 telephone compaines, 2 power companies, and god knows who else ALL have wires on the poles, i bet none of them would "acidently" break a competitor's lines while doing "routine maintenance". A pole gets knocked over by a car crash and now 5 - 10 compaines are all out there trying to figure out how to get all their guys up the new pole at once to re-atach everything. It would be a real mess.
Maybe it's because people use the web for shoping, i would bet that average joe user uses the net for:
#1: E-mail
#2: Shopping
Is it wrong that google's results would reflect this?
Here. The down side is that it includes a whole OS that must be purchased as well. :)
And "beaming power" is so easy and efficient!
I have run into the problem as recently as last winter. They asked for a phone number, i gave them my cell and they said since that was a cell and they therefor couldn't verify the address that deleviry was unavaliable. I guess that some areas are more "tech friendly" then others. Good to know that there is progress being made.
However most pizza places wnat a landline number (won't deliver to a cell number), FedEx and UPS require a landline number to do pickups (at least they did the last time i used that, it's been ~10 months so this might be different. Haveing a landline is a good thing, turning off the ringer is an even better thing. :)
And this is a school district (read K-12) which pay even less!
Thanks for the info.
:)
However this is NOT a criminal suit, it's a CIVIL case. There's no "acessory to the crime" in civil cases one is either liable for the damages or they are not, and i could see people getting off with this defense. it might not work, but only time, and lawsuits will tell.
Remember though that this is a CIVIL trial, not a criminal. In civil trial's things like ignorance go a lot further then in criminal trials. This would at the very least make the RIAA's "burden of proof" harder to meet.
I'm use that companies like Linksys, D-Link, NetGear, Intel, Apple, Dell, and others would fight regulation of 802.11 VERY quickly.
Hmmm....i wonder if the "I didn't know how to secure my wireless network...it MUST have been my neighbor" defense is going to become popular soon?!?
:)
If that works, great. Just for a sanity check. Are you able to run office/photoshop ect in OSX or is it a dual boot? If they run in OSX did you have to do anything special to get them to work? I am NOT a mac person, however i have several friends that are. They have all seemed to have problems running older software. It might be because they are mostly art-types, but it would be nice to know.
Thanks.
Um much of the "old" Max software won't run under OSX. I have friends who have been told by Apple to dual boot their macs so they can run all their "old" software while they buy new copies. I know a Mac user *warning what follows is second hand knowledge* who wanted to move to OSX but would have needed to re-buy Office, Photoshop, and several other programs that would have cost as much as a new mac.
However as history has shown now that the P4 is at 3.2 GHz, it won't be long and a Dual Xeon will be avaliable at that speed.
That's the dangers of making a comment like "fastest PC on earth"......it's a claim that one has to be VERY careful about making. Especiall when some of the benchmarks were pretty close and people had been saying for 2 weeks that the 3.2 were comming out that day. Apple SHOULD have known better.
I find their data honest, but their claim to be bull. Look at their numbers they are comparing the G5 to the P4 3.0 and Xeon 3.06. What about the new 3.2's? What about an AMD or two? What about an Opteron (another 64-bit machine)? Their numbers a great and clear, but they are also very meaning less.
like I don't help people at work who have problems with Windows even though I am an expert.
So, if one of your Co-workers is have a problem (meaning a loss of productivity) and even if you KNOW how to fix the problem wuickly and easily you are going to make them use IT (which usually takes time) or MS Tech. Support. You would CHOOSE to hurt your company, talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Actually no. The issue was this:
RIAA: Give Us the Names!
Verizon: Give Us a court order signed by a judge and we will.
RIAA: We don't need on, just a motion to file, which is signed by a clerk.
Verizon: You need a judge's sig.
RIAA: Nope
THEN Verison went to court and they fought over it. The judge ruled that the way the law is written RIAA was right, only a court clerk's sig in needed, NOT a judge. That law applies to everyone, and now a judge has clarified the wording with a ruling. End of line.