Even on hardware with a service plan, the hardware failed (even under warranty) they would replace the hardware and refuse to update to lifetime subscription unless you paid another $150. This pissed off a programmer so much he went on a mission to avoid paying twice, succeded and shared it with all.
Sounds like grounds for a nice, fat lawsuit as well.
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The problem is that repurposing a tivo would require the exact same skills, tools and methods as cheating tivo by stealing their service.
Then maybe TIVO shouldn't design their hardware so you have to hack it to use it in perfectly legitimate ways.
Because our 'good men' made the mess in the first place. If you make a mess, clean it up. That's good advice for a pre-schooler, and good advice for presidents.
It's also a recipe for an endless, bloody war. Especially when the populace doesn't want you there and the politicians you are supporting are massively corrupt.
The whole point of the game is to have some of the best graphics ever seen.
Or because you...like the game. I turned down the settings for Far Cry on the same system so I could have high frame rates through the map. Which is another drawback of console games: they frequently sacrifice performance for eye candy.
Not obvious at all! Could you repost and put a em tag on the "how copies are used" (or whatever you think implies it), because I simply cannot see it.
Sure thing:
Without any agreement otherwise, the copyright holder has exclusive rights over the product. If you don't make an agreement, or violate the license, you get sued for copyright infringement just as you do with copies of unauthorized copies of DVDs.
If you are beholden to the EULA than the software publisher has ultimate control over "how copies are used". If you want further evidence that EULA's are unenforceable, remember Windows Refund Day? Computer users asked Microsoft for a refund of unwanted Windows installations, as specified under the EULA. Microsoft ignored them.
It's fantastic that bandwidth in densely-populated areas (or in countries which have invested more in network infrastructure) have cheaper network plans, but that's orthogonal to this discussion.
Except we have many areas in the United States with far higher population densities than Europe, yet you have the same shitty access in the NYC-DC corridor that you do out in the sticks.
And the left is in charge of both houses of congress and the executive branch.
Then I suggest you take a nice vacation in North Korea so you know what "left" actually looks like. The problem with conservatives is that they're on a nonstop slide to the right, with the hardboiled conservative from 10 years ago being today's moderate, and the hardboiled conservative from 20 years ago is verging on Liberal. Cas in point, Ronald Reagan would be a socialist in today's GOP: he cut the number of nuclear weapons, granted amnesty to illegal immigrants, signed tax increases to cover the budget deficit, and signed a treaty requiring the prosecution of torture.
And Nixon, who had a 70% marginal income tax, who started the EPA, proposed an annual income or "negative income tax" for the poor, had affirmative action in it's most quota-orientated form, and supported OSHA, would be a communist in today's GOP.
It'll happen to you. You might be a raving elitist teabagger today, but in 10 years you'll be a moderate. 15 and you'll be a RINO. 20 and you'll be liberal, and in 30 you'll be an outright socialist. Once you realize that, maybe you'll wake up to the fact that Congress and Obama are acting far to conservative.
Then why ignore the high cost items involved with console gaming?
I have to run Crysis Warhead with medium settings. I frankly don't see how a PC made in 2004 would have sufficient power to run Crysis with decent settings.
Minimum requirements are a Geforce 6800 - the exact card I got in July of 2004.
Isn't that pretty much the definition of the party elders backing her?
I didn't say that party elders didn't back her, but that there were other party elders backing Hoffman, like Senator DeMint.
So, remind me again, how the party elders backed Hoffman?
By giving him endorsements? Do you also think that teabagging is a grassroots movement, when it's sponsored and run by groups like FreedomWorks, formed by and run by long time Republican politicians and operatives who take money from special interests?
ZERO Republicans voted for the stimulus package.
Yes, the political math is simple: if the stimulus was a success, Obama would get the credit. If the stimulus was a failure, no Republican wanted to have his vote attached to it. Yet Obama, foolishly, thought he'd get 20 Republican votes in the Senate for it.
Scozzafava was for the stimulus, she was for ObamaCare, she's for card check (her husband is a big shot union lawyer), etc.
Side note: it's funny how Republicans are all for rights and choices, unless it involves workers organizing.
The problem is, what, exactly, does the Republican Party stand for? Does it have any core issues that define it as a party, or is it simply a letter after someone's name with a complete lack of coherency?
That's quite a problem when your party has grown accustomed to motivated reasoning and inferred justification, with a side order of arguments of convenience.
That's the biggest problem the GOP has right now, they just want to do whatever it takes to get into and maintain power, even if what they're doing completely betrays their supposed ideals.
Well, that's the problem with a movement entirely based around a racist backlash to the civil rights movement and an elitist backlash to the New Deal: it sucks.
Funny you should say that given just a few min ago I ran across this story which said in part:
Wow, you'd have a great point there, if you think emergency doctors are pro-car crashes and pro-gun shootings.
You are falling into he same trap as the original replier to my comment above...
You mean "the trap" of having an idea of how the English language works? If these people were really pro-abortion, they'd be encouraging more abortions. Which is an entirely separate issue from wanting others to have the choice to have an abortion.
And your poorly reasoned red herring might have a leg to stand on if we were talking about Sun or if they were the only company or group complaining about Microsoft's monopolies.
For example, Smith v. Maryland, 442 US 735 (1979) supports the notion of a "pen register", which, under subsequent case law, supports the collection of other types of communications metadata without a warrant. This includes items such as IP addresses, To: and From: information on email messages, and other "wrapper" information that does not constitute the substance or content of the communication.
All nicely irrelevant comparisons. Why are you talking external "metadata" when the topic is the tapping of phone conversations?
Additionally, the entirety of the communications traffic of non-US Persons may be collected at any time, without a warrant, even when that collection occurs physically inside of the the US.
Also irrelevant - no one has objected to surveillance of foreign communications that are routed through the U.S. This is a red herring.
So, as I said, and which you completely and utterly missed and misunderstood
Not in the slightest, that's the problem.
it is incorrect to say "warrantless wiretaps are illegal", because there are any number of ways that this statement is demonstrably (and legally) false
Not in the context of domestic NSA wiretapping - which is you know, the entire point of the issue.
But by all means, keep turning a blind eye to the complexity of the situation, and the policy, technical, and legal frameworks surrounding and supporting it.
Obviously, the part of the parent's post that you were emphatically agreeing to, obviously:
Without any agreement otherwise, the copyright holder has exclusive rights over the product. If you don't make an agreement, or violate the license, you get sued for copyright infringement just as you do with copies of unauthorized copies of DVDs.
There is absolutely nothing about this entire thing that isn't under the direct control of the left.
Then we'd be talking about single payer, not triggers and mandates. As usually the case, if you look in the opposite direction of the wingnut viewpoint, you'll find reality.
Why do you believe that you can enforce any contractual terms after money has changed hands? Especially when you cannot return your purchase for a refund?
Yes, just compare the high marketshare of Unix in the server market since it's inception, vs the penetration in the consumer market. More like ClosedMind.
The clones didn't expand the Mac market because they cannibalized Apple's sales rather than adding new customers.
Revisionist BS, fixed, as the entire purpose of the clone program was to "expand the Mac market". But the cloners weren't "expanding the Mac market", they were selling to Apple's existing customers.
The clone maker's designs had to be approved by Apple.
Because they didn't did want shitty products bearing the Mac name.
PowerComputing showed at trade shows several models in development that would have taken the Mac to new markets--but they could not get permission from Apple to sell them.
G3 systems, which was right when the cloning program was killed off. But stop pretending that Apple didn't allow innovation - Daystar had a quad processing 604e system, something never produced by Apple.
It's only free if your time is worthless. If you make decent money, spending so much as a day messing around with your Linux box and your cost savings are out the window.
Which suggests they wouldn't otherwise have bought a Mac because it was too expensive.
Or because Apple has a couple of big holes in their product line: netbooks and midrange towers. I want to put five drives in a case without having to pay for a quad core Xeon.
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Even on hardware with a service plan, the hardware failed (even under warranty) they would replace the hardware and refuse to update to lifetime subscription unless you paid another $150. This pissed off a programmer so much he went on a mission to avoid paying twice, succeded and shared it with all.
Sounds like grounds for a nice, fat lawsuit as well.
The problem is that repurposing a tivo would require the exact same skills, tools and methods as cheating tivo by stealing their service.
Then maybe TIVO shouldn't design their hardware so you have to hack it to use it in perfectly legitimate ways.
Because our 'good men' made the mess in the first place. If you make a mess, clean it up. That's good advice for a pre-schooler, and good advice for presidents.
It's also a recipe for an endless, bloody war. Especially when the populace doesn't want you there and the politicians you are supporting are massively corrupt.
The whole point of the game is to have some of the best graphics ever seen.
Or because you...like the game. I turned down the settings for Far Cry on the same system so I could have high frame rates through the map. Which is another drawback of console games: they frequently sacrifice performance for eye candy.
Again you pretend that this is all about Sun. Interesting, selective argument.
Not obvious at all! Could you repost and put a em tag on the "how copies are used" (or whatever you think implies it), because I simply cannot see it.
Sure thing:
Without any agreement otherwise, the copyright holder has exclusive rights over the product. If you don't make an agreement, or violate the license, you get sued for copyright infringement just as you do with copies of unauthorized copies of DVDs.
If you are beholden to the EULA than the software publisher has ultimate control over "how copies are used". If you want further evidence that EULA's are unenforceable, remember Windows Refund Day? Computer users asked Microsoft for a refund of unwanted Windows installations, as specified under the EULA. Microsoft ignored them.
It's fantastic that bandwidth in densely-populated areas (or in countries which have invested more in network infrastructure) have cheaper network plans, but that's orthogonal to this discussion.
Except we have many areas in the United States with far higher population densities than Europe, yet you have the same shitty access in the NYC-DC corridor that you do out in the sticks.
And the left is in charge of both houses of congress and the executive branch.
Then I suggest you take a nice vacation in North Korea so you know what "left" actually looks like. The problem with conservatives is that they're on a nonstop slide to the right, with the hardboiled conservative from 10 years ago being today's moderate, and the hardboiled conservative from 20 years ago is verging on Liberal. Cas in point, Ronald Reagan would be a socialist in today's GOP: he cut the number of nuclear weapons, granted amnesty to illegal immigrants, signed tax increases to cover the budget deficit, and signed a treaty requiring the prosecution of torture.
And Nixon, who had a 70% marginal income tax, who started the EPA, proposed an annual income or "negative income tax" for the poor, had affirmative action in it's most quota-orientated form, and supported OSHA, would be a communist in today's GOP.
It'll happen to you. You might be a raving elitist teabagger today, but in 10 years you'll be a moderate. 15 and you'll be a RINO. 20 and you'll be liberal, and in 30 you'll be an outright socialist. Once you realize that, maybe you'll wake up to the fact that Congress and Obama are acting far to conservative.
I'm not a console fanboy.
Then why ignore the high cost items involved with console gaming?
I have to run Crysis Warhead with medium settings. I frankly don't see how a PC made in 2004 would have sufficient power to run Crysis with decent settings.
Minimum requirements are a Geforce 6800 - the exact card I got in July of 2004.
Isn't that pretty much the definition of the party elders backing her?
I didn't say that party elders didn't back her, but that there were other party elders backing Hoffman, like Senator DeMint.
So, remind me again, how the party elders backed Hoffman?
By giving him endorsements? Do you also think that teabagging is a grassroots movement, when it's sponsored and run by groups like FreedomWorks, formed by and run by long time Republican politicians and operatives who take money from special interests?
ZERO Republicans voted for the stimulus package.
Yes, the political math is simple: if the stimulus was a success, Obama would get the credit. If the stimulus was a failure, no Republican wanted to have his vote attached to it. Yet Obama, foolishly, thought he'd get 20 Republican votes in the Senate for it.
Scozzafava was for the stimulus, she was for ObamaCare, she's for card check (her husband is a big shot union lawyer), etc.
Side note: it's funny how Republicans are all for rights and choices, unless it involves workers organizing.
The problem is, what, exactly, does the Republican Party stand for? Does it have any core issues that define it as a party, or is it simply a letter after someone's name with a complete lack of coherency?
That's quite a problem when your party has grown accustomed to motivated reasoning and inferred justification, with a side order of arguments of convenience.
That's the biggest problem the GOP has right now, they just want to do whatever it takes to get into and maintain power, even if what they're doing completely betrays their supposed ideals.
Well, that's the problem with a movement entirely based around a racist backlash to the civil rights movement and an elitist backlash to the New Deal: it sucks.
Really? "not the case for anyone"?
Funny you should say that given just a few min ago I ran across this story which said in part:
Wow, you'd have a great point there, if you think emergency doctors are pro-car crashes and pro-gun shootings.
You are falling into he same trap as the original replier to my comment above...
You mean "the trap" of having an idea of how the English language works? If these people were really pro-abortion, they'd be encouraging more abortions. Which is an entirely separate issue from wanting others to have the choice to have an abortion.
And your poorly reasoned red herring might have a leg to stand on if we were talking about Sun or if they were the only company or group complaining about Microsoft's monopolies.
But we weren't, they weren't, so you don't.
No.
Um, yes.
For example, Smith v. Maryland, 442 US 735 (1979) supports the notion of a "pen register", which, under subsequent case law, supports the collection of other types of communications metadata without a warrant. This includes items such as IP addresses, To: and From: information on email messages, and other "wrapper" information that does not constitute the substance or content of the communication.
All nicely irrelevant comparisons. Why are you talking external "metadata" when the topic is the tapping of phone conversations?
Additionally, the entirety of the communications traffic of non-US Persons may be collected at any time, without a warrant, even when that collection occurs physically inside of the the US.
Also irrelevant - no one has objected to surveillance of foreign communications that are routed through the U.S. This is a red herring.
So, as I said, and which you completely and utterly missed and misunderstood
Not in the slightest, that's the problem.
it is incorrect to say "warrantless wiretaps are illegal", because there are any number of ways that this statement is demonstrably (and legally) false
Not in the context of domestic NSA wiretapping - which is you know, the entire point of the issue.
But by all means, keep turning a blind eye to the complexity of the situation, and the policy, technical, and legal frameworks surrounding and supporting it.
By all means, keep projecting. With a cannon.
Where did the "how copies are used" come from?!
Obviously, the part of the parent's post that you were emphatically agreeing to, obviously:
Without any agreement otherwise, the copyright holder has exclusive rights over the product. If you don't make an agreement, or violate the license, you get sued for copyright infringement just as you do with copies of unauthorized copies of DVDs.
There is absolutely nothing about this entire thing that isn't under the direct control of the left.
Then we'd be talking about single payer, not triggers and mandates. As usually the case, if you look in the opposite direction of the wingnut viewpoint, you'll find reality.
Why do you believe that you can enforce any contractual terms after money has changed hands? Especially when you cannot return your purchase for a refund?
Right, because I'm going to list every liberal blog post and editorial that's critical of Obama. Get serious.
Yes, just compare the high marketshare of Unix in the server market since it's inception, vs the penetration in the consumer market. More like ClosedMind.
That is absolutely correct.
Uh, no. The copyright holder has exclusive rights over making copies of a product, not in how copies are used.
The software you bought was an upgrade.
If the software in question doesn't require a previous copy to be installed - then it's not an upgrade.
IF and when apple chooses to offer FULLVERSION retail copies of OS X
They have for a long time. Any more questions?
Apple has made the requirement of an existing Mac a CLEAR part of the system requirements on the box
Irrelevant as that's not a contract. If you paid for a copy and the box said "Sandbags owes free blow jobs to Jobs", would you do it?
/steps up to the pitch with snobby projection in hand.
Fixed that for you.
The clones didn't expand the Mac market because they cannibalized Apple's sales rather than adding new customers.
Revisionist BS, fixed, as the entire purpose of the clone program was to "expand the Mac market". But the cloners weren't "expanding the Mac market", they were selling to Apple's existing customers.
The clone maker's designs had to be approved by Apple.
Because they didn't did want shitty products bearing the Mac name.
PowerComputing showed at trade shows several models in development that would have taken the Mac to new markets--but they could not get permission from Apple to sell them.
G3 systems, which was right when the cloning program was killed off. But stop pretending that Apple didn't allow innovation - Daystar had a quad processing 604e system, something never produced by Apple.
That and the fact that Microsoft has an OS monopoly and an office suite monopoly to rely on - Apple, not so much.
It's only free if your time is worthless. If you make decent money, spending so much as a day messing around with your Linux box and your cost savings are out the window.
Which suggests they wouldn't otherwise have bought a Mac because it was too expensive.
Or because Apple has a couple of big holes in their product line: netbooks and midrange towers. I want to put five drives in a case without having to pay for a quad core Xeon.