But why would you ever want to buy blank media and NOT use it to pirate something? I mean what do you think people use dem suckers for, legal backups? Hah!
I doubt that's the point. People do their grocery shopping at Wal-mart since groceries are there too. Now they won't have to stop by the video store on the way home either.
Not to be a dick, but where I live Blockbuster bought out the (crappy) video places run by all the Kroger grocery stores in the area so I don't have to stop by the video store after picking up groceries as it is.
"What the ISPs are spending on bandwidth is one of their greatest capital expenditures,'' said Andrew Parker, a co-founder of CacheLogic.
In other shocking developments, our consumer investigation team has discovered that one of the airline's biggest expenses is on airplanes!! Stay tuned for the nightbeat at 11 when our investigative team unearths what those oil companies are reeaaalllly spending their money on.
The reason for the codename is because current in the Mozilla Suite of applications and Firebird browser are two different things. As I understand it, further development on the suite of applications will eventually be discontinued and Firebird will get the main focus of the developers. Right now, when you tell someone to try the "Mozilla Browser" they don't know whether to download the Mozilla suite or the Firebird Browser. They are NOT the same thing. In addition to being lighter with less bloat, there are several actual differences in code (gasp!) between the browser contained in the Mozilla suite and the standalone Firebird browser. see here for a bit more info on all this. Specifically, this part:
3. Deliver a Mozilla 1.4 milestone that can replace the 1.0 branch as the stable development path, then move on to make riskier changes during 1.5 and 1.6. The major changes after 1.4 involve switching to Phoenix and Thunderbird, and working aggressively on the next two items.
Sooooo, to answer the question they can't call Firebird "Mozilla Browser" at the moment because it is different from the browser currently contained in the Mozilla suite and Firebird will not become the sole browser being developed by the folks over at mozilla.org for a little while now. Until the switch is made and the Mozilla suite is dismantled, two separate names are necessary.
Way to go Earthlink! If I was interested in dialup, this would be a big selling point for me.
Earthlink also offers Cable and DSL. Of course, it uses the lines of either your local cable or telephone company, but if this spam tool is what you want then you can get Cable or DSL with Earthlink.
Almost as crazy as searching people for bombs at sporting events. The sad part is not that they search for it, but that they have to because of what people are willing to do.
I wouldn't really say all songs are ads for CDs, singles are ads for CDs. An advertising practice of giving away your product would certainly help boost your units shipped, but as for the revenue ahhhh.... no. This is a great idea tho, imagine if you just got some free McDonald's food whenever the burger commercials came on TV. I mean after all that burger is just an advertisement for errrr.. the burger so jus give it to em right?
If Mozilla further bloated its installer by including the features you mentioned, I don't see what would change. Now it's "integrated" into the browser, but everyone who doesnt want it gets to download it anyway and god knows mozilla is too big as it is. The extension system makes sense, download what you want and nothing else.
It wasn't the "definitive" desktop review! Do people not even read the Slashdot summaries anymore?
This was a "definite" desktop review.
Some people may not read the "summaries" (headlines as I like to call them, but whatever), but I wouldn't be so quick to judge because you quite obviously didn't read the article. check it out here and read the TITLE of the article. The article calls itself "The Definitive Desktop Environment Comparison", not the definite comparison as CowboyNeal calls it. In fact, I suspected that "definite" was a typo when I first read it and still do. Point being, the parent of your post was referring to the ARTICLE TITLE, not cowboyneals (most likely) typo in the summary. And if your post was all a joke, I apologize for making a big racket about nothing. That is all.
Musicians that hit it well (and therefore what most people listen to) are used to making hundreds of millions of dollars, more than most people see in their lifetimes. I don't think that filesharing is going to bankrupt them any time soon just as long as they keep selling cds and do their thing the best they can
That is why its the record companies fighting to the death to destroy filesharing. The RIAA talks about artists benig hurt because people sympathize for them, not record company CEO's. Artists aren't going to be hit hard if the music industry is drastically changed and the middlemen are cut out, record companies are. All that being said though, even if the record companies are cut out of the equation artists still aren't going to be real fond of people trading their stuff around for free, but I think they will be supportive of p2p (for a price) and using the internet to distribute their music.
Philips's system uses a computer DVD recorder to save at least 100 hours of MP3 music on a blank DVD, which will play on a new portable DVD player.
So, I'm not really sure what led you to believe that. Seems to me like it would make more sense and more people would adopt it if they let people use the blank DVD media (and recorders) that they already have (or will purchase because they can be used for other things as well).
Shell and BP have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in hydrogen storage and production technology. Indeed, BP, formerly British Petroleum, has rebranded itself Beyond Petroleum.
Monopolistic practices happen, all the time, the companies gets reined in by the gov't. But you don't see the rhetoric when people talk about cable companies, phone companies, power companies, etc., only Microsoft. Curious...
Monopolies, no matter who has them, are bad. It doesn't matter who the company is or what they control.
(scroll down a bit in the discussions for the "rhetoric" and if I really cared, I'd look up examples for cable companies and power companies too, but I don't:p)
You also don't see video game piracy of playsation games because Sony has copy controls on its games and getting around it requires soldering a chip onto your motherboard in most cases. Most people aren't going to do that, so piracy isn't mainstream. You don't hear the outcry about PS copy protection, just CD copy protection. But I digress, the point is that the video game industry doens't suffer from mainstream piracy because it is prevented by strong copy controls that are a bitch for normal users to get around.
Ahhh yes, just imagine how easy it will be to get any keylogging software/virus/trojan/worm onto a gullible user's computer if it can be passed off as a legitimate game/piece of software/whatever. I mean come on, if passing some malicious code off as nude anna kournikova pictures has been moderately succesful, surely some people are dumb enough to put a virus lurking in the recordable part of a seemingly legitimate game CD onto their computer. No, wait.... better yet I could even record whatever i want onto the boot sector of the disc and it would still seem to the casual user like any other game/software CD. Brilliant! (joking, joking i know there is no boot sector on CDs. pointing this out will only make you look stupid. thank you.)
If I went to MS's site and the webpage they sent was broken, I would think MS had an incompetent webmaster who didn't know HTML. I wouldn't think Opera was broken.
Of course you,/. reader, would realize that the problem lies with the HTML of MSN's site. Normal (read: clueless) users don't see that, however. What they see is that it works in IE and it doesn't work in Opera. Therefore, they blame Opera as the problem. Unlike you, most web users don't have a clue what stylesheets are and I'd be willing to bet many of them don't have an elementary understanding of HTML.
Because you had to Pay to Play. Especially when McDonalds and Pepsi was Buying Ad's on it.
Replace "play" with "view" and you have another form of entertainment: cable television. People will pay for entertainment, if it's good. The issue with the Sims is that people don't find it fun to play, but the notion of paying to play games is quite feasible and the game companies will continue to pursue it, because it generates a steady cash flow. Imagine, now you're making $160 ($40 to start, plus $10 monthly) per year off your customers as opposed to only getting a one time payment of $40 before. Thats 4x as much money in case ur scoring at home. For that reason, we'll certainly see many more pay-to-play ventures in the future, no matter how bad EA screws this one up.
Nokia has phones out right now that don't do this much and they certainly aren't cheap. They seem to love the niche market of "hey! look at me I dropped 500 dollars on my phone and check out all the bells and whistles" crowd with corporate money to blow. I'd say the chances of this being close to the level of GBA's cost and usability are pretty slim. The more features you try to pack into one device, the pricier it becomes and the quality of each feature with likely suffer as the company spreads itself thinner.
Maybe you didn't read the article closely enough, but he DID sue the individual as well as Ebay. Straight from the article it reads
"Roger Grace, publisher of a Los Angeles legal newspaper, sued eBay and Hollywood memorabilia dealer Tim Neeley after the Web site operator refused to remove negative comments Neeley made after selling Grace six vintage entertainment magazines."
I agree w/ the AC post above that he sued Ebay only for the money, but the guy did sue the person as well.
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Where is this 90% drop you are talking about??
It took around a year to drop from a high of around $60 to a low of about $20, and that's a 66% drop.
I'd heard talk before of it pointing to sex.com. Or was that blaster? I can't keep them straight anymore...
I use Norton Internet Security to selectively permit/disable programs from accessing the web.
But why would you ever want to buy blank media and NOT use it to pirate something? I mean what do you think people use dem suckers for, legal backups? Hah!
Not to be a dick, but where I live Blockbuster bought out the (crappy) video places run by all the Kroger grocery stores in the area so I don't have to stop by the video store after picking up groceries as it is.
In other shocking developments, our consumer investigation team has discovered that one of the airline's biggest expenses is on airplanes!! Stay tuned for the nightbeat at 11 when our investigative team unearths what those oil companies are reeaaalllly spending their money on.
Almost as crazy as searching people for bombs at sporting events. The sad part is not that they search for it, but that they have to because of what people are willing to do.
I wouldn't really say all songs are ads for CDs, singles are ads for CDs. An advertising practice of giving away your product would certainly help boost your units shipped, but as for the revenue ahhhh.... no. This is a great idea tho, imagine if you just got some free McDonald's food whenever the burger commercials came on TV. I mean after all that burger is just an advertisement for errrr.. the burger so jus give it to em right?
If Mozilla further bloated its installer by including the features you mentioned, I don't see what would change. Now it's "integrated" into the browser, but everyone who doesnt want it gets to download it anyway and god knows mozilla is too big as it is. The extension system makes sense, download what you want and nothing else.
didnt make me log in... maybe i'm just lucky
Or that they think the laws are flawed and unbalanced in the first place.
To be fair though, the linked page does talk about their initiatives into alternative fuel sources, but the whole name change thing is just a myth.
And the prequel
Monopolies, no matter who has them, are bad. It doesn't matter who the company is or what they control.
(scroll down a bit in the discussions for the "rhetoric" and if I really cared, I'd look up examples for cable companies and power companies too, but I don't
You also don't see video game piracy of playsation games because Sony has copy controls on its games and getting around it requires soldering a chip onto your motherboard in most cases. Most people aren't going to do that, so piracy isn't mainstream. You don't hear the outcry about PS copy protection, just CD copy protection. But I digress, the point is that the video game industry doens't suffer from mainstream piracy because it is prevented by strong copy controls that are a bitch for normal users to get around.
Ahhh yes, just imagine how easy it will be to get any keylogging software/virus/trojan/worm onto a gullible user's computer if it can be passed off as a legitimate game/piece of software/whatever. I mean come on, if passing some malicious code off as nude anna kournikova pictures has been moderately succesful, surely some people are dumb enough to put a virus lurking in the recordable part of a seemingly legitimate game CD onto their computer. No, wait.... better yet I could even record whatever i want onto the boot sector of the disc and it would still seem to the casual user like any other game/software CD. Brilliant! (joking, joking i know there is no boot sector on CDs. pointing this out will only make you look stupid. thank you.)
Nokia has phones out right now that don't do this much and they certainly aren't cheap. They seem to love the niche market of "hey! look at me I dropped 500 dollars on my phone and check out all the bells and whistles" crowd with corporate money to blow. I'd say the chances of this being close to the level of GBA's cost and usability are pretty slim. The more features you try to pack into one device, the pricier it becomes and the quality of each feature with likely suffer as the company spreads itself thinner.
Maybe you didn't read the article closely enough, but he DID sue the individual as well as Ebay. Straight from the article it reads
I agree w/ the AC post above that he sued Ebay only for the money, but the guy did sue the person as well.
Damn 15 minute delay, I thought I would be cool and say the fuzzy math joke first :(.