That's pretty much it. I hope they put their material online and then sue everyone who downloads it because of the possibility that they may illegally share it. Also I want them to sue because the company may decide to raise the price later on, and the consumer not having paid that price increase is clearly in violation.
I like the idea of breaking up families.
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RIAA Sues a Child
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This is a wonderful strategy - demand that the court appoint a legal guardian which is usually done to pit the childs interests against those of the parent or guardian, usually as a precursor to reassign parental rights. It is brilliant that now a corporation can sue you and move to take your children away at the same time.
Please continue to wallow in your cartoon network references D00d and whine that you don't have the corner office after, oh, 1 year of work experience, because that's like, you know, reality and shit.
I mean standards are fine, as long as they are rational but when one group determines you can shoot a character in the face as long as no nipples and penises were observed because arousal is the devil's portal then you're not enforcing STANDARDS, you're enforcing your own particular MORES.
BTW all my kids play GTA and all of them are religious school tutors.
No you see just because they maintain they are the aggrieved party does not actually make their behavior legal any more than say any other oligopoly meeting to set prices and predatory practices. I know you've probably been weaned on a steady diet of Ayn Rand psycholibertarianism but there are actual laws that even corporations have to follow. Maybe in your perfect Darwinian land there are no laws you can kill and eat whomever, but we've haven't really operated like that since the 19th Century.
Let them raise the prices to the sky. $5 a track, $10, higher. At that point the record companies literally become a racketeering enterprise just like the mafia.
1 drop of bleach per gallon of water, run it through a Brita twice. Bring Neosporin, methiolate, rubber gloves and a good respirator with replaceable filters. Steel toed boots and gaiters. Metal mesh work gloves. A framing hammer and wrecking bar. A propane blowtorch, 2 extra tanks, a crosscut saw and a hacksaw. Duct tape. Foil emergency blankets. 2 large first aid kits. A hardhat, goggles.
"They" don't know shit about how their own technology works. They don't care. That's the real divide; you do.
And in all honesty I'm not sure I'm going to care that much about Vista for example. When it breaks it will do whatever it does to recover itself, or not, or I'll go out and buy another 350 dollar e Machine. Big whoop - how many hours of your time is it worth to mess with it?
I suppose I could dink with innards of my MP3 player and solder in a new 2 dollar capacitor or something. But probably not. Probably I'll just toss it in the trash.
That's a terribly long development timeline given what we already know about the science and engineering. 15 years seems like a painfully long time given other space programs, potentially China, Japan, even India that this effort could work with down the road or compete with.
Because it's an appendage, no more
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Palm's Mistakes
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Unless you are willing to commit to an expensive flukey online service your PDA will forever remain an appendage to your PC. I have used Palms for years, probably since 1997 and I've struggles with synch software, modems, compatibility and applications that weren't fully baked yet. Moreover it seemed for many years you practically needed to have proficiency with a soldering iron to upgrade your own hardware in the face of Palm's resolute refusal to help you or even comment on their own hardware upgrade plans. It became impossible, to me, to justify to myself spending 3-4-5 hundred dollars on the new and improved Palm as a result.
Then there were conduit problems with applications like Lotus Notes - not the friendliest app in the world, true, but Easy Synch just sucked in fact it sucked so bad it stopped running on my machine altogether. Amd with Avantgo - well for all it's possbilities the company couldn't even list a "what's new - who's new" tab on their website so that you'd know the new sources that were available. I think eventually there really weren't any new sources availablw and Avantgo was relegated to private distribution networks.
Then the OS itself seemed to stall out. They made a huge deal of color but they never even exploited it like making the calendar application utilize color coding for alerts and whatnot. The OS really isn't different under the covers than it was years ago and other than some basic auxilliary device support like Flash or CF it's stil the same old same old. All that hardware power and still no voice recognition for example.
So in the end, other than holding my password database which I'm too lazy to move, and a kludgey copy of my calendar, and some specialized calendars I use for personal purposes there isn't anything that I need a Palm for.
Now to be fair though, WTF how long does Spring and Samsung think people are going to enter their calendars into their phone by hand? Write some conduits and provide a cable that doesn't cost $50 bucks and they could put the PDA market out of business pretty quickly.
What if we as a community just put a 12 month moratorium on backfilling MS crappy code and the crappy job they do designing and then maintaining it. What if we simply let it go to shit and let MS deal with the consequences. Sometimes I feel like an ennabler for a crazy codependent cranked out asshole. What if we just said NO -it's your fundamental problem, you fix it. Maybe MS stock would go down, maybe not. Maybe some really important systems would fizzle up in flames. Who fucking cares? I say call them on their bluff and stop pretending that they're not sucking off OUR work and OUR integrity.
In the '70's and '80's the dropout rate at Stonybrook (SUNY) in the lifesciences, typically premed or the more estoteric pure genetics research program for the undergrads was over 75% in the first three semesters.
My own experience in SUNY Albany in the chem program was similar. Many young people took the chemistry route as an alternative to the bio premed program but soon discovered that the TAs were grading on a reverse curve. Bang your head against a lab practical for 15 weeks only to discover that a 94 was a C at best.
As an aside let me mention that my linear programming prof did not actually speak any English. He was French Canadian and never felt the need to communicate with us verbally at all.
Seriously in keeping with the hiphopmification of everything they have to make Spiderman Black. Hell he's not raised by his parents, he's alienated and poor. Julia Stiles can play his GF.
While it's wonderful for you to be able to junk your job and run off to paint nude Tahitian women many of us, myself included can't actually afford to do this. Burnout isn't caused by doing something you don't like, it's caused by doing something you don't like that you can't practically change.
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That's pretty much it. I hope they put their material online and then sue everyone who downloads it because of the possibility that they may illegally share it. Also I want them to sue because the company may decide to raise the price later on, and the consumer not having paid that price increase is clearly in violation.
This is a wonderful strategy - demand that the court appoint a legal guardian which is usually done to pit the childs interests against those of the parent or guardian, usually as a precursor to reassign parental rights. It is brilliant that now a corporation can sue you and move to take your children away at the same time.
Please continue to wallow in your cartoon network references D00d and whine that you don't have the corner office after, oh, 1 year of work experience, because that's like, you know, reality and shit.
hahahahahahahaha
I mean standards are fine, as long as they are rational but when one group determines you can shoot a character in the face as long as no nipples and penises were observed because arousal is the devil's portal then you're not enforcing STANDARDS, you're enforcing your own particular MORES.
BTW all my kids play GTA and all of them are religious school tutors.
And a Google car, a Googledog and I want to clone myself on Google; Google Self.
For violating the sacred law of raping and pillaging their own consumers.
No you see just because they maintain they are the aggrieved party does not actually make their behavior legal any more than say any other oligopoly meeting to set prices and predatory practices. I know you've probably been weaned on a steady diet of Ayn Rand psycholibertarianism but there are actual laws that even corporations have to follow. Maybe in your perfect Darwinian land there are no laws you can kill and eat whomever, but we've haven't really operated like that since the 19th Century.
It is a criminal enterprise that threatens to extort money from its own customers. Moreover there is self admitted collusion in this enterprise.
Let them raise the prices to the sky. $5 a track, $10, higher. At that point the record companies literally become a racketeering enterprise just like the mafia.
1 drop of bleach per gallon of water, run it through a Brita twice. Bring Neosporin, methiolate, rubber gloves and a good respirator with replaceable filters. Steel toed boots and gaiters. Metal mesh work gloves. A framing hammer and wrecking bar. A propane blowtorch, 2 extra tanks, a crosscut saw and a hacksaw. Duct tape. Foil emergency blankets. 2 large first aid kits. A hardhat, goggles.
But it has nothing to do with generational differences. I still want or need to know everything there is to know about it.
Now w/o all that illegal music NOT sucking BW they'll give me ginormous rebates RIGHT?????? RIGHT???????
"They" don't know shit about how their own technology works. They don't care. That's the real divide; you do.
And in all honesty I'm not sure I'm going to care that much about Vista for example. When it breaks it will do whatever it does to recover itself, or not, or I'll go out and buy another 350 dollar e Machine. Big whoop - how many hours of your time is it worth to mess with it?
I suppose I could dink with innards of my MP3 player and solder in a new 2 dollar capacitor or something. But probably not. Probably I'll just toss it in the trash.
Because when we looked at it a few years ago it said something that amounted to
"This may or may not contain someone else's code so if someone comes after you legally, you're on your own."
Our lawyers did not like that one bit.
That's a terribly long development timeline given what we already know about the science and engineering. 15 years seems like a painfully long time given other space programs, potentially China, Japan, even India that this effort could work with down the road or compete with.
Unless you are willing to commit to an expensive flukey online service your PDA will forever remain an appendage to your PC. I have used Palms for years, probably since 1997 and I've struggles with synch software, modems, compatibility and applications that weren't fully baked yet. Moreover it seemed for many years you practically needed to have proficiency with a soldering iron to upgrade your own hardware in the face of Palm's resolute refusal to help you or even comment on their own hardware upgrade plans. It became impossible, to me, to justify to myself spending 3-4-5 hundred dollars on the new and improved Palm as a result.
Then there were conduit problems with applications like Lotus Notes - not the friendliest app in the world, true, but Easy Synch just sucked in fact it sucked so bad it stopped running on my machine altogether. Amd with Avantgo - well for all it's possbilities the company couldn't even list a "what's new - who's new" tab on their website so that you'd know the new sources that were available. I think eventually there really weren't any new sources availablw and Avantgo was relegated to private distribution networks.
Then the OS itself seemed to stall out. They made a huge deal of color but they never even exploited it like making the calendar application utilize color coding for alerts and whatnot. The OS really isn't different under the covers than it was years ago and other than some basic auxilliary device support like Flash or CF it's stil the same old same old. All that hardware power and still no voice recognition for example.
So in the end, other than holding my password database which I'm too lazy to move, and a kludgey copy of my calendar, and some specialized calendars I use for personal purposes there isn't anything that I need a Palm for.
Now to be fair though, WTF how long does Spring and Samsung think people are going to enter their calendars into their phone by hand? Write some conduits and provide a cable that doesn't cost $50 bucks and they could put the PDA market out of business pretty quickly.
What if we as a community just put a 12 month moratorium on backfilling MS crappy code and the crappy job they do designing and then maintaining it. What if we simply let it go to shit and let MS deal with the consequences. Sometimes I feel like an ennabler for a crazy codependent cranked out asshole. What if we just said NO -it's your fundamental problem, you fix it. Maybe MS stock would go down, maybe not. Maybe some really important systems would fizzle up in flames. Who fucking cares? I say call them on their bluff and stop pretending that they're not sucking off OUR work and OUR integrity.
In the '70's and '80's the dropout rate at Stonybrook (SUNY) in the lifesciences, typically premed or the more estoteric pure genetics research program for the undergrads was over 75% in the first three semesters.
My own experience in SUNY Albany in the chem program was similar. Many young people took the chemistry route as an alternative to the bio premed program but soon discovered that the TAs were grading on a reverse curve. Bang your head against a lab practical for 15 weeks only to discover that a 94 was a C at best.
As an aside let me mention that my linear programming prof did not actually speak any English. He was French Canadian and never felt the need to communicate with us verbally at all.
It's about standardizing a hardware package that users can't dink with as much. Plus the inventory is cheaper to carry than a big bulky desktop.
That is the first negative # I ever got here. Yaaay me.
May the better bots win.
Seriously in keeping with the hiphopmification of everything they have to make Spiderman Black. Hell he's not raised by his parents, he's alienated and poor. Julia Stiles can play his GF.
How is anyone held accountable?
While it's wonderful for you to be able to junk your job and run off to paint nude Tahitian women many of us, myself included can't actually afford to do this. Burnout isn't caused by doing something you don't like, it's caused by doing something you don't like that you can't practically change.
But you can wrap your black t-shirt around your face and wander around the cloud of tear gas if you think that will make a difference.