If you use the Verizon network, your phone is so locked down there's no way of that happening. You use what you download, or nothing at all. I looked around their stuff once. Now my phone just makes a standard "ring" sound.
I'm sure if "friendly fire" is coming from a place that it's not supposed to be, I'm sure they can override the programming and figure out where it is.
Dude, I have to tell you! I found this totally awesome site called Snopes.com that has all kinds of well researched information about bullshit stories like that!
I pay to go to concerts. The artist can then play music, and get money for his work. I do NOT pay for music that has been recorded, and is being used to pay for posh lifestyles for heirs of artists who've never done any work in their life, or for artists who did one interesting thing years ago and are trying to live off it forever. I don't get perpetual remunerations for the work at the grocery store I did.
Good comment. I always return to "If you want to keep an idea to yourself, don't tell anyone."
Artists should be paid for performance, for things they create. If you want to keep your digital painting as yours, sell only analog copies (prints). If you want to keep your music yours, don't sell recordings. Play music for your money. "Artists" are the ONLY class of people who expect to still make money on shit they did years ago. I don't expect to make money off the contributions I've made to different programs over the years. Why the hell should an artist (or the RIAA) keep getting revenue for something that isn't actively contributing to society or doing anything?
State paid-for electricity, state paid-for hardware, on state paid-for time. I see no problem with the state saying that when he was at work, developing it and they were paying him, they own at least that part of it.
So what happens when the state sets the speed limit of a road that is safely driven at 55MPH to 45MPH? People still drive faster because that's what the road is built for and their habits are, there's no safety issue, but all of a sudden people are inconvenienced and the state fills it's coffers off of a change that had no reason to be made. That's why people get upset at things like that.
Especially if I were a consultant, if anyone had ever said those things to me, I'd have closed up and walked out right then and let them twist in the wind until they apologized and paid me double the initial fee, and they'd have been lucky to not get a fist in the mouth on my way out. There's no way someone in that position would be paying me enough to take that kind of personal abuse.
We'll disband the IT department as soon as you can put down what a computer is supposed to do into a sentence as simple as the "call people" functional description of a telephone.
It's mostly gotta be unique. "Darwin" has disqualified the category of "getting in a fight with an animal at the zoo and losing" because too many people do it, so it's not novel.
Cancer? I'll say you're stupid if you bring it upon yourself, but it's not unique or amusing.
And porn for after the kids go to bed. Do you really think stores like Fascinations and the myriad of porn websites stay in business because no one pays for their products? Ron Jeremy doesn't sleep on a cot at night.
It all has to do with who's in control, and Sony wants to be. Users are just people to extract money from, and the more you can control them, the more you can assure your income flow. They don't care about people or rights, just income streams. If they can control what is distributed to get the "we're more wholesome!" angle because they think it's more lucrative, they will. If they can control your computer to force you to buy one or more copies of a CD, they don't care about the other repercussions as long as it doesn't go public or give them bad press.
Multiangle porn is a killer feature, though. It's not so much for a "normal" movie, but for watching porn? People would clamor for this. "I really wish I wasn't staring at his hairy ass, I want to see it from the other side"
Prior art shouldn't be the only way to invalidate a patent, though. There's the whole non-obviousness bit, too. A joystick of any size is pretty obvious now. Unless someone's using magic to implement it, there's really nothing that's not evolutionary about it.
I have an HGL-30 from www.powernotebooks.com that works great with Linux. Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but it'll ship without an OS if you want;)
Now we just need a way to make the execs and people who orchestrated these shenanigans held personally liable and responsible. Take their nice houses and stuff. They don't deserve them.
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And my Corolla gets 35-40MPG. The 25MPG you stated is for something like a mid-sized SUV any more.
If you use the Verizon network, your phone is so locked down there's no way of that happening. You use what you download, or nothing at all. I looked around their stuff once. Now my phone just makes a standard "ring" sound.
I'm sure if "friendly fire" is coming from a place that it's not supposed to be, I'm sure they can override the programming and figure out where it is.
Well sure, if you aren't choosy about which kid to kidnap. But then you're just an amateur.
(this post is entirely tongue-in-cheek, but it answers your question)
Oh, ok. I'll just suffer some marginal injustices to myself, since other people have it worse. Thanks for clearing that up!
Abusing people in the 3rd world is horrible, but abusing people in the 1st world is marginally bad?
Dude, I have to tell you! I found this totally awesome site called Snopes.com that has all kinds of well researched information about bullshit stories like that!
I pay to go to concerts. The artist can then play music, and get money for his work. I do NOT pay for music that has been recorded, and is being used to pay for posh lifestyles for heirs of artists who've never done any work in their life, or for artists who did one interesting thing years ago and are trying to live off it forever. I don't get perpetual remunerations for the work at the grocery store I did.
Good comment. I always return to "If you want to keep an idea to yourself, don't tell anyone." Artists should be paid for performance, for things they create. If you want to keep your digital painting as yours, sell only analog copies (prints). If you want to keep your music yours, don't sell recordings. Play music for your money. "Artists" are the ONLY class of people who expect to still make money on shit they did years ago. I don't expect to make money off the contributions I've made to different programs over the years. Why the hell should an artist (or the RIAA) keep getting revenue for something that isn't actively contributing to society or doing anything?
State paid-for electricity, state paid-for hardware, on state paid-for time. I see no problem with the state saying that when he was at work, developing it and they were paying him, they own at least that part of it.
So what happens when the state sets the speed limit of a road that is safely driven at 55MPH to 45MPH? People still drive faster because that's what the road is built for and their habits are, there's no safety issue, but all of a sudden people are inconvenienced and the state fills it's coffers off of a change that had no reason to be made. That's why people get upset at things like that.
Middle management's job is to convince the people above and below them that they're indispensable.
Especially if I were a consultant, if anyone had ever said those things to me, I'd have closed up and walked out right then and let them twist in the wind until they apologized and paid me double the initial fee, and they'd have been lucky to not get a fist in the mouth on my way out. There's no way someone in that position would be paying me enough to take that kind of personal abuse.
We'll disband the IT department as soon as you can put down what a computer is supposed to do into a sentence as simple as the "call people" functional description of a telephone.
It's mostly gotta be unique. "Darwin" has disqualified the category of "getting in a fight with an animal at the zoo and losing" because too many people do it, so it's not novel.
Cancer? I'll say you're stupid if you bring it upon yourself, but it's not unique or amusing.
If you don't want your idea to get out, don't tell anyone about it. Otherwise, work for your money and put on a performance for people.
And porn for after the kids go to bed. Do you really think stores like Fascinations and the myriad of porn websites stay in business because no one pays for their products? Ron Jeremy doesn't sleep on a cot at night.
It all has to do with who's in control, and Sony wants to be. Users are just people to extract money from, and the more you can control them, the more you can assure your income flow. They don't care about people or rights, just income streams. If they can control what is distributed to get the "we're more wholesome!" angle because they think it's more lucrative, they will. If they can control your computer to force you to buy one or more copies of a CD, they don't care about the other repercussions as long as it doesn't go public or give them bad press.
Multiangle porn is a killer feature, though. It's not so much for a "normal" movie, but for watching porn? People would clamor for this. "I really wish I wasn't staring at his hairy ass, I want to see it from the other side"
Prior art shouldn't be the only way to invalidate a patent, though. There's the whole non-obviousness bit, too. A joystick of any size is pretty obvious now. Unless someone's using magic to implement it, there's really nothing that's not evolutionary about it.
I'd make a present for my girlfriend, but I can't find a cheap 3D scanner...
I have an HGL-30 from www.powernotebooks.com that works great with Linux. Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but it'll ship without an OS if you want ;)
Divide 10 by 3 and then by 2, all in your head, and get back to me.
Wait, it's not?
/me retracts his petition to Shell to have gasoline sold by the hogshead
Now we just need a way to make the execs and people who orchestrated these shenanigans held personally liable and responsible. Take their nice houses and stuff. They don't deserve them.