but not prepaid. I know it seems a crazy thing to want. But,most of my communication is through email, chats rather than phone. I don't want to pay $30 a month for a service I don't use much. I want a mobile communication device that doesn't cost a monthly fee. Why should I pay more for phone internet access at slow as dial up speeds, when my infinitely faster broadband at home is cheaper?
Yeah, I thought about doing that, but I don't think I have the pocket space. ,br>
I have the cheap phone already, Switching to it would be interesting. I'd have to tell everyone to use the new skype in number, but most of them would still use the old number and it would work. There wouldn't be much of an incentive for them to switch to the new number.
And I guess the biggest problem right now, is the lack of wifi where I am. It might happen once in a blue moon when I was in a coffee shop, but that isn't worth the price right now. I guess I have more issues than just the convergence one.
What I really want is this thing, with a real cell phone feature as well. That way I'd rig it to receive calls via skype and fail over to the cell when wifi wasn't available. Oh, and I'd like the phone to have a prepaid option as well. There really isn't a combination I know of that has prepaid, wifi, and skpye capabilites in a single phone.
Please let me know if there is one for the US of A.
I think some physicist once said about quantum mechanics
" If anyone says they understand quantum mechanics, its because they haven't thought about it enough"
For the Time cube, I'd say
" If any on says they understand the time cube, its because they're on crack"
It really doesn't make any sense what so ever. Don't try. I first ran into it close to ten years ago. The guy posted some of his theory on the discovery channels website, which back then was full of people with crazy theories. I was a resident debunker, but this one can't really be debunked. Its more of a cult with out any followers, in that sense.
But seriously the complaint was that it was modded insightful.
Its like some dude next to you says " I don't like Bridgestone". You wouldn't turn to him and say
"Gee, I never thought of that before, could you share more of your brilliance with me? "
You'd probably just walk away from him, or maybe your phone was on vibrate and make up a conversation to avoid acknowledging their presence. You wouldn't repeat the comment to your brother in law next sunday at the family get together. Because, like or dislike of a product, is not insightful. Now, if there was an accompanying engineering breakdown of why a product is good or bad that involves original thought, that would be insightful.
But as it is, it seems Slashdot mods have done the correct thing here and modded it down.
They made WMV work on windows. Thats a shocker. Its actually a difficult process to port an application from one platform to another. Sure, they might have tried very hard to prevent it from working on linux, but they really didn't have to.
Sort of like, how I don't have to issue a restraining order on Celine Dion. Sure, if she showed up at my house at 2:00 in the morning on an ongoing basis, I'd do what ever it took to keep her away. But, thankfully she has yet to show up despite the lack of any legal, or physical barriers I've created to prevent it from occurring.
Except the price for the ms products isn't zero. MS has to provide a compelling reason to switch, selling a product thats a couple hundred less won't do it. You're still risking a couple hundred dollars on an unproven technology that won't be compatible with anything for a couple years, and might not be supported long term. Now if it was free, and open source, those concerns wouldn't be there.
Great idea, but sometimes it takes more than a year to take a product to market. Sure it shouldn't take more than a year for a one click patent to come into use, but if you discover cold fusion, well it might take some time to get the funding and actually build a state of the art first ever cold fusion power plant.
Should they really lose their patent after spending billions of dollars?
It can't be simply, "Oh, we think he/she did it." They've got to show that you actually did,
Yeah. They show up with the ISP records showing it came from your address. That is evidience. You would need to dispute the evidence in court and convinve the judge and/or jury that evidence can be explained by some other means. You are innocent, until proven guilty, but you do have to actually show up in court to say you are innocent.
I think you would need to have some proof that someone other than yourself did the activity. Just like some one could steal my car hit a pedestrian and return it to my garage. I'd need proof of that to make it a convincing argument.
That's always annoyed me actually. And also why I invented quotes to insert in my essays in high school. People pay way too much attention to who says something that sounds profound. If the dali llama says something that is crazy and obviously wrong, people will still quote it and use it in an argument because he said it.
Thanks for the clarification. I somehow missed the RE: in your original post. I thought you were pointing out a difference between republicans and democrats.
I mean, *most* still watch tv with ads, instead of tivo-ing it and skipping the commercials or downloading it without commercials, right?
From what they tell me, most people aren't slashdot readers. I suspect less of the general public download tv shows than the slashdot readership. I also suspect a higher percentage of linux users here than in redmond, Washington. And for my next trick of prognostication, I predict the sun will rise out of the wesss... No WAIT I'm getting a feeling from beyond the earth.... EAST. The sun will rise from the EAST tomorrow.
No strong enforcement anyway. If you have chapters, attach it to the beginning and ending of each chapter. Or maybe there are no chapters, so you can fast forwards through it, but its still there.
You didn't respond when they put people on you-cannot-sell-to lists. ?? Export controls? Those have been around for years and years, and really aren't specific to a single party AFAIK.
In general most of your rant is on target, but you should stick to things that are true and verifiable, otherwise a casual observer might remark that both sides are equally dishonest.
When they decide that they can't prevent theft, they might just decide that they can instead use the increased distribution to their benefit via increased ads inside each movie.
Might even make sence for them to produce two versions of the movies:
Free Electronically distributed , with ads maybe non skipable commercials between chapters
Not free, no ads + DRM
of course pirates would still try and rip the add free discs, and or remove the ads from the free version,
but it might remove the incentive for many people to pirate the non free disks. I mean, most still watch tv with ads, instead of tivo-ing it and skipping the commercials or downloading it without commercials, right?
Your two statements seem to contradict each other. If Novell doesn't embed technologies covered by MS patents, then there isn't any real reason to boycott them. MS' plan only works if Novell does embed those technologies.
I most certainly do not have the square footage available on my roof. I would imagine that most people do not either. I helped install solar panels in third world tropical countries. We used cells with an efficiency of 10% or so, covering a flat cement roof that was 200 X 50 feet generated an average of 8 kilowatt hours. It is enough for lights, and a computer or two, but not enough for the typical western lifestyle ( refrigerator, air conditioning, water heater, Tv).
We need to start look at how we are using our power in addition to how its generated.
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but not prepaid. I know it seems a crazy thing to want. But,most of my communication is through email, chats rather than phone. I don't want to pay $30 a month for a service I don't use much. I want a mobile communication device that doesn't cost a monthly fee. Why should I pay more for phone internet access at slow as dial up speeds, when my infinitely faster broadband at home is cheaper?
Yeah, I thought about doing that, but I don't think I have the pocket space.
,br> I have the cheap phone already, Switching to it would be interesting. I'd have to tell everyone to use the new skype in number, but most of them would still use the old number and it would work. There wouldn't be much of an incentive for them to switch to the new number.
And I guess the biggest problem right now, is the lack of wifi where I am. It might happen once in a blue moon when I was in a coffee shop, but that isn't worth the price right now. I guess I have more issues than just the convergence one.
What I really want is this thing, with a real cell phone feature as well. That way I'd rig it to receive calls via skype and fail over to the cell when wifi wasn't available. Oh, and I'd like the phone to have a prepaid option as well. There really isn't a combination I know of that has prepaid, wifi, and skpye capabilites in a single phone.
Please let me know if there is one for the US of A.
I think some physicist once said about quantum mechanics
" If anyone says they understand quantum mechanics, its because they haven't thought about it enough"
For the Time cube, I'd say
" If any on says they understand the time cube, its because they're on crack"
It really doesn't make any sense what so ever. Don't try. I first ran into it close to ten years ago. The guy posted some of his theory on the discovery channels website, which back then was full of people with crazy theories. I was a resident debunker, but this one can't really be debunked. Its more of a cult with out any followers, in that sense.
But seriously the complaint was that it was modded insightful.
Its like some dude next to you says " I don't like Bridgestone". You wouldn't turn to him and say
"Gee, I never thought of that before, could you share more of your brilliance with me? "
You'd probably just walk away from him, or maybe your phone was on vibrate and make up a conversation to avoid acknowledging their presence. You wouldn't repeat the comment to your brother in law next sunday at the family get together. Because, like or dislike of a product, is not insightful. Now, if there was an accompanying engineering breakdown of why a product is good or bad that involves original thought, that would be insightful.
But as it is, it seems Slashdot mods have done the correct thing here and modded it down.
They made WMV work on windows. Thats a shocker. Its actually a difficult process to port an application from one platform to another. Sure, they might have tried very hard to prevent it from working on linux, but they really didn't have to.
Sort of like, how I don't have to issue a restraining order on Celine Dion. Sure, if she showed up at my house at 2:00 in the morning on an ongoing basis, I'd do what ever it took to keep her away. But, thankfully she has yet to show up despite the lack of any legal, or physical barriers I've created to prevent it from occurring.
Except the price for the ms products isn't zero. MS has to provide a compelling reason to switch, selling a product thats a couple hundred less won't do it. You're still risking a couple hundred dollars on an unproven technology that won't be compatible with anything for a couple years, and might not be supported long term. Now if it was free, and open source, those concerns wouldn't be there.
Great idea, but sometimes it takes more than a year to take a product to market. Sure it shouldn't take more than a year for a one click patent to come into use, but if you discover cold fusion, well it might take some time to get the funding and actually build a state of the art first ever cold fusion power plant.
Should they really lose their patent after spending billions of dollars?
What kind of research will this encourage?
It can't be simply, "Oh, we think he/she did it." They've got to show that you actually did,
Yeah. They show up with the ISP records showing it came from your address. That is evidience. You would need to dispute the evidence in court and convinve the judge and/or jury that evidence can be explained by some other means. You are innocent, until proven guilty, but you do have to actually show up in court to say you are innocent.
What, Did someone type something? Mye eyes are close dto avoid the sashvertisement. God thinkg I cant touch type. Well, sort of
I think you would need to have some proof that someone other than yourself did the activity. Just like some one could steal my car hit a pedestrian and return it to my garage. I'd need proof of that to make it a convincing argument.
That's always annoyed me actually. And also why I invented quotes to insert in my essays in high school. People pay way too much attention to who says something that sounds profound. If the dali llama says something that is crazy and obviously wrong, people will still quote it and use it in an argument because he said it.
Ignorance breaks the symmetry of your argument, It should be :
Ignorance is knowledge
It ultimately shouldn't make sense. and everytime you see a question like this you have to say to your self...
mumble, mubmle.. base 7 ?!? stupid microsoft they could of at lease said it was base 7, or a normal octal base.
That is absolutely true. I guess the only real solution I can think of is require some sort of computer IQ test, instead of cancel or allow.
Are you sure you want to do this?
"YES"
OK what is the end result of this computation 15 XOR 24 ?
" UM 17?"
No, please call your son to ask permission to perform this operation.
Thanks for the clarification. I somehow missed the RE: in your original post. I thought you were pointing out a difference between republicans and democrats.
I mean, *most* still watch tv with ads, instead of tivo-ing it and skipping the commercials or downloading it without commercials, right?
... No WAIT I'm getting a feeling from beyond the earth .... EAST. The sun will rise from the EAST tomorrow.
From what they tell me, most people aren't slashdot readers. I suspect less of the general public download tv shows than the slashdot readership. I also suspect a higher percentage of linux users here than in redmond, Washington. And for my next trick of prognostication, I predict the sun will rise out of the wesss
No strong enforcement anyway. If you have chapters, attach it to the beginning and ending of each chapter. Or maybe there are no chapters, so you can fast forwards through it, but its still there.
specifically
You didn't respond when they redefined the commerce clause as meaning "anything we want it to mean."
?? That clause is actually one that most conservatives dislike and think its been interpreted too widely by Liberals. This was the reasoning behind Clarance Thomas voting against the regulation of marijuana
You didn't respond when they put people on you-cannot-sell-to lists.
?? Export controls? Those have been around for years and years, and really aren't specific to a single party AFAIK.
In general most of your rant is on target, but you should stick to things that are true and verifiable, otherwise a casual observer might remark that both sides are equally dishonest.
Might even make sence for them to produce two versions of the movies:
of course pirates would still try and rip the add free discs, and or remove the ads from the free version, but it might remove the incentive for many people to pirate the non free disks. I mean, most still watch tv with ads, instead of tivo-ing it and skipping the commercials or downloading it without commercials, right?
Your two statements seem to contradict each other. If Novell doesn't embed technologies covered by MS patents, then there isn't any real reason to boycott them. MS' plan only works if Novell does embed those technologies.
Man Expelled from planet for crimes against Humanity.
Remind me again the significance of a 50 cent increase in domain names?
I'd vote against any representative that decided to waste any time on this.
I most certainly do not have the square footage available on my roof. I would imagine that most people do not either. I helped install solar panels in third world tropical countries. We used cells with an efficiency of 10% or so, covering a flat cement roof that was 200 X 50 feet generated an average of 8 kilowatt hours. It is enough for lights, and a computer or two, but not enough for the typical western lifestyle ( refrigerator, air conditioning, water heater, Tv).
We need to start look at how we are using our power in addition to how its generated.
Evil-Symantec ? That deserves a -1 Redundant.