"So now the enjoyment from this song is long gone, but I have already paid $20 for this now-known-as piece of plastic and song that I no longer enjoy."
A product, like a compact disc, is not decidedly going to be worth less with time. Instead of getting tired of a song after hearing it twenty times, I might like it twice as much. If that then means that this piece of plastic is worth $40, I got a pretty good deal on that CD.
please do write that article on what exceptions are and aren't good for. I clearly understand exceptions now that I've read this comment of yours, and further knowledge would be real dandy.
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0wnz0red is my favorite of Doctorow's. Some of his other short stories published on salon.com are Truncat, Anda's Game and Liberation Spectrum.
Also, slashdot has previously covered Cory in an O'Reilly interview and his take on DRM. There is, of course, more.
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the parent is a great and informed comment and should be read by more posters.
then you'd need to disable that feature in the hotplug/autoloading software, too -- oder?
swsusp2 works like a charm on most modern 'tops.
"So now the enjoyment from this song is long gone, but I have already paid $20 for this now-known-as piece of plastic and song that I no longer enjoy."
A product, like a compact disc, is not decidedly going to be worth less with time. Instead of getting tired of a song after hearing it twenty times, I might like it twice as much. If that then means that this piece of plastic is worth $40, I got a pretty good deal on that CD.
please do write that article on what exceptions are and aren't good for. I clearly understand exceptions now that I've read this comment of yours, and further knowledge would be real dandy.
it would be interesting to read a paper that discusses C++ compilers and their trustworthiness.