....especially when millions of people world-wide are waiting scream "Bullsh!t" (in all forms of media) the moment the prosecution tries to submit some in court.
Legal rights and copyrights exist for many things. But once you post something online, anyone can make a copy of it, redistribute it, store it, or whatever without your knowledge or permission.
All you can do is sue them or issue a cease and desist. And if you have the legal funds to pursue that great, but most people do not.
And even if you do prosecute someone successfully, someone else out there still has a copy of what you posted -- they're just not making it very public that they have it. You can never 100% be sure that no one will ever redistribute it again.
Use your own two neurons to think before you post!
So what they're really saying is to hit the torrent store for our online "purchases" rather then stay legit and send more tax revenue to a bunch of $100K/yr earning public servants who got NYS into this budget problem in the first place.
I'm sure this was proposed over a $1000/plate fund-raiser dinner.
I find it amusing that any time someone proposes using an alternative to petroleum-based products, that proposal always gets turned down and slammed for being more expensive, etc. than using petroleum...
...then we get back to petroleum products causing issues (environmental and economic)... and the cycle renews itself.
Curse you OPEC and the lobbyists you have in our elected government.
The problem is the popular vote doesn't count for some individuals. For example: My in-laws live in New York and they're Republicans. They went to the polls like good citizens and voted for McCain, but in the end, that personal presidential vote was useless because New York almost always gives its Electoral votes to the democratic presidential candidate.
Another example: The popular vote was for Al Gore, but Bush was elected instead. For those of us who voted for Gore and watched 8 years of Bush's terrorism on our nation, the EC vote-in of Bush was a huge slap in the face.
That would fall in line with their use of a 3rd party wireless card to hack the MacBook. (i.e. using the product in a way most people wouldn't be using it.)
...users of the Windows version.
It's certainly not all the Mac and Linux Firefox users.
For the typical "big-blue-e = Internet" household, if any of them get Firefox, it's because their tech family member hooked them up with it. You could, in a sense, say that Firebox was "bundled" for these types of households.
Many people I know agree that Windows XP SP2 was more than just a service pack for XP, it made XP feel like a whole new OS. All the newly added features, much needed tweaks, and even the usual program incompatabilities that come with having a "new" OS.
For those who loved Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 was the version of Windows XP that finally got holdouts to switch.
Windows 7 is built on Vista. Like XPSP2, Windows 7 fixes almost all the bad aspects of Vista and adds new features and tweaks.
With such a promising, upcoming OS, it's no wonder why MS is having a hard time finishing Vista SP2. It must be like coding for a dead fork.
It's 2009. With smartphones, wireless broadband cards for laptops, and the wide availability of broadband Internet access, how often does someone use an email-capable computer that is not also connected to the Internet with one of the above connections?
Offline Gmail will still have its uses, and many power uses will no doubt enjoy this, but I think this would have been real "front page news" back when dial-up was the ubiquitous connection method.
I know the use of the term 'Earth-sized' brings more views, but hopefully the non-science/tech people out there reading it will realize that that is just a physical comparison and not a suggestion that life is present.
e.g. Venus is also 'Earth-sized' but is highly inhabitable (for life as we know it)
Seriously, there should be a simulation where the habitat module is actually within a larger structure and the larger structure has the sand/dirt, light conditions, and a nice matte painting of "Mars" and then be set to STP of Mars.
Living inside the habitat, knowing death is outside, makes for a more believable simulation and that all safety checklists are done.
(of course there would be an emergency button that instantly blows open some hatches in the larger structure to quickly convert it to Earth STP, should something get screwed up.)
The people who come up with these franchise cash-in games should be fired.
Alas, they went with the guaranteed seller that will no doubt create an impressive revenue spreadsheet, netting the project manager a bonus and a shot at doing another cash-in game next quarter.
As people spend less and less money, expect retailers and the vendors themselves to perform any "guerilla" tactics necessary to get you to spend your cash on their products.
Businesses with management who have yet to embrace the Internet or mobile aspects of "word of mouth" and marketing will lose market share to those that do this sort of thing.
Is it wrong to abuse online comments/reviews, sure, but it's no different that paying people to stand in line on a product launch day or hiring false paparazzi to follow an up-and-coming celeb.
Seeing as how Verizon likes to charge a lot for its data plans, will Microsoft re-issue its previous plan of paying people for using Live Search? Would be a way to offset the mobile data cost.
When you use a debit card, your using Visa or MasterCard's good name and network to check with your bank to see if your account has the appropriate funds for the transaction.
If your bank account does have enough funds, Visa/MasterCard requests the transaction amount to be placed on hold on your account until such a time as when the funds can be actually transferred from your bank account to the merchant's account with a credit card merchant office (e.g. Nova). This transfer can happen instantly during business hours or can hold as pending until the next available business day if done during off hours or weekends.
You sign/confirm to an agreement that the funds will still be there when the transaction electronically resolves itself. If you don't have the funds, Visa/Mastercard can come rape you.
If the merchant sold you damaged goods and will not issue you a refund, you can use Visa/Mastercard's thugs to force their hand. If you didn't make the purchase (identity theft), your bank can use Visa/Mastercard's thugs to track things down, issue you a provincial credit, and other fun things.
Anytime you pay for something electronically, your info will be made known to the merchant and Visa/Mastercard. How do you think Visa has that promo for debit cards allowing you to be the big mystery winner just for using your debit card to make purchases?
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....especially when millions of people world-wide are waiting scream "Bullsh!t" (in all forms of media) the moment the prosecution tries to submit some in court.
without enough donations if metered bandwidth were the case.
Let me spell it out for you:
Legal rights and copyrights exist for many things. But once you post something online, anyone can make a copy of it, redistribute it, store it, or whatever without your knowledge or permission.
All you can do is sue them or issue a cease and desist. And if you have the legal funds to pursue that great, but most people do not.
And even if you do prosecute someone successfully, someone else out there still has a copy of what you posted -- they're just not making it very public that they have it. You can never 100% be sure that no one will ever redistribute it again.
Use your own two neurons to think before you post!
So what they're really saying is to hit the torrent store for our online "purchases" rather then stay legit and send more tax revenue to a bunch of $100K/yr earning public servants who got NYS into this budget problem in the first place.
I'm sure this was proposed over a $1000/plate fund-raiser dinner.
That's been the rule of the Internet for nearly two decades.
I find it amusing that any time someone proposes using an alternative to petroleum-based products, that proposal always gets turned down and slammed for being more expensive, etc. than using petroleum...
...then we get back to petroleum products causing issues (environmental and economic)... and the cycle renews itself.
Curse you OPEC and the lobbyists you have in our elected government.
I agree.
The problem is the popular vote doesn't count for some individuals. For example: My in-laws live in New York and they're Republicans. They went to the polls like good citizens and voted for McCain, but in the end, that personal presidential vote was useless because New York almost always gives its Electoral votes to the democratic presidential candidate.
Another example: The popular vote was for Al Gore, but Bush was elected instead. For those of us who voted for Gore and watched 8 years of Bush's terrorism on our nation, the EC vote-in of Bush was a huge slap in the face.
If the popular vote truly counted, that would be a very compelling reason to register and/or go out and vote.
That would fall in line with their use of a 3rd party wireless card to hack the MacBook. (i.e. using the product in a way most people wouldn't be using it.)
...users of the Windows version. It's certainly not all the Mac and Linux Firefox users. For the typical "big-blue-e = Internet" household, if any of them get Firefox, it's because their tech family member hooked them up with it. You could, in a sense, say that Firebox was "bundled" for these types of households.
First video games allegedly are the cause for kids to shoot up their high school. Now they're using the Half-life engine for educational simulations?
Sounds a bit like having their cake and eating it, too.
On a more humorous note, I wonder if any of the players tried strafe-jumping down the hall to exit the building faster!
Perhaps now we'll be able to see those massive floating garbage islands in the Pacific Ocean that we're always hearing about.
Many people I know agree that Windows XP SP2 was more than just a service pack for XP, it made XP feel like a whole new OS. All the newly added features, much needed tweaks, and even the usual program incompatabilities that come with having a "new" OS.
For those who loved Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 was the version of Windows XP that finally got holdouts to switch.
Windows 7 is built on Vista. Like XPSP2, Windows 7 fixes almost all the bad aspects of Vista and adds new features and tweaks. With such a promising, upcoming OS, it's no wonder why MS is having a hard time finishing Vista SP2. It must be like coding for a dead fork.
It's 2009. With smartphones, wireless broadband cards for laptops, and the wide availability of broadband Internet access, how often does someone use an email-capable computer that is not also connected to the Internet with one of the above connections?
Offline Gmail will still have its uses, and many power uses will no doubt enjoy this, but I think this would have been real "front page news" back when dial-up was the ubiquitous connection method.
doh. highly uninhabitable.
I know the use of the term 'Earth-sized' brings more views, but hopefully the non-science/tech people out there reading it will realize that that is just a physical comparison and not a suggestion that life is present.
e.g. Venus is also 'Earth-sized' but is highly inhabitable (for life as we know it)
Seriously, there should be a simulation where the habitat module is actually within a larger structure and the larger structure has the sand/dirt, light conditions, and a nice matte painting of "Mars" and then be set to STP of Mars.
Living inside the habitat, knowing death is outside, makes for a more believable simulation and that all safety checklists are done.
(of course there would be an emergency button that instantly blows open some hatches in the larger structure to quickly convert it to Earth STP, should something get screwed up.)
The people who come up with these franchise cash-in games should be fired.
Alas, they went with the guaranteed seller that will no doubt create an impressive revenue spreadsheet, netting the project manager a bonus and a shot at doing another cash-in game next quarter.
As people spend less and less money, expect retailers and the vendors themselves to perform any "guerilla" tactics necessary to get you to spend your cash on their products.
Businesses with management who have yet to embrace the Internet or mobile aspects of "word of mouth" and marketing will lose market share to those that do this sort of thing.
Is it wrong to abuse online comments/reviews, sure, but it's no different that paying people to stand in line on a product launch day or hiring false paparazzi to follow an up-and-coming celeb.
Remember, Kevin Mitnick was a computer hacker, but an even better social engineer.
Seeing as how Verizon likes to charge a lot for its data plans, will Microsoft re-issue its previous plan of paying people for using Live Search? Would be a way to offset the mobile data cost.
I cannot believe how some bands/artist can so "fail" at digital music as much as the Beatles (Apple Corps. or whoever owns the rights) have.
Podcast shmodcast, release your stupid songs on iTunes already and make some money.
When I used to play WoW, the login queue for my server would always appear on Sundays between 5pm and 11pm, server time.
If it has a Visa or Mastercard logo on it, it does, regardless if you choose Credit or Debit.
When you use a debit card, your using Visa or MasterCard's good name and network to check with your bank to see if your account has the appropriate funds for the transaction.
If your bank account does have enough funds, Visa/MasterCard requests the transaction amount to be placed on hold on your account until such a time as when the funds can be actually transferred from your bank account to the merchant's account with a credit card merchant office (e.g. Nova). This transfer can happen instantly during business hours or can hold as pending until the next available business day if done during off hours or weekends.
You sign/confirm to an agreement that the funds will still be there when the transaction electronically resolves itself. If you don't have the funds, Visa/Mastercard can come rape you. If the merchant sold you damaged goods and will not issue you a refund, you can use Visa/Mastercard's thugs to force their hand. If you didn't make the purchase (identity theft), your bank can use Visa/Mastercard's thugs to track things down, issue you a provincial credit, and other fun things.
Anytime you pay for something electronically, your info will be made known to the merchant and Visa/Mastercard. How do you think Visa has that promo for debit cards allowing you to be the big mystery winner just for using your debit card to make purchases?