For the record, its been 8 years now. They got the message loud and clear.
Besides, we have laws preventing harassing phone calls by companies once you've requested not to be called here in Canada. There are some exceptions for collections agencies, but they'd better have proof and a good reason to come after you when you drag them into court over it.
a) You do realize the PS3 runs Linux natively, right? b) I bought a later generation PS2 and it has lasted very well. Never buy initial releases of new hardware technology. c) I play dozens of games on my PS2 and its really amazing what can be done with 32MB of RAM.
Many judges are smarter than lawyers would have you believe.
Its pretty obvious to a judge who's had ISP service for the last 5 years at his or her own home what did or did not transpire between you and the sign-up desk when you got your service.
Consider the judge in Alberta (Canada) who informed a car manufacturer that "everyone knows a good metal paint job will last 15 years" and forced them to repaint customers' cars where the paint had deteriorated in less than that.
If you get the wrong judge or a bad lawyer, sure, your verbal contract may not do you a bit of good, but in many situations, its pretty obvious what must have transpired for you to end up where you are now (especially when the one guy shows up with $1000/hr lawyers and you're representing yourself).
This is how I dealt with a certain company that offers 5 CDs for $5... we all know who that is.
I got my cheap CDs.
I bought two more like they said I had to, within a year.
I got bills on my credit card.
I called the CC company and told them they were fraudulent charges.
Company in question sent the collections people after me, so I told the two collections agents I talked to that unless they could arrange a piece of paper showing me a bill for exactly what I owed their client and why, I wasn't ever going to pay and I'd charge them with harassment if they ever called again.
I did a credit check on myself a year later and there was nothing about the situation on it, so I'm happy. I know a lot of people who've gone through the same thing and just bit the bullet and paid bills for things they didn't want though.
I hate to break it to you, but looking at the 20 or so PS2 games I still have on my shelf, the money I spent on the console itself is negligable in the long run.
If you're going to complain about a $100 price difference in consoles and that price difference is gone in two games, how many games are you planning to play? Three?
Assuming you'll buy a dozen or more games for either system over the long run, the price difference isn't there -- its about quality. I think Sony's got it right; price it high for early adopters like all other electronics, then knock the price down as it becomes possible.
Also known as why Microsoft made a lot more money than the UNIX vendors -- the UNIX vendors had mature products on their hands and were in maintenance mode with them. Microsoft was about new and flashy (and still is).
I've been using NVidia's drivers for two years now with FC3, FC4 and FC5 downloaded from NVidia and installed per their instructions. The only problems I've ever had are when doing X upgrades my xorg.conf needs reconfiguring for dual-head output.
Its been a feature through hacks and language extensions.
This is a natural ability of the Python language, not a comment-based hack into your C++ code that breaks when you change whitespace.
And trust me, I've written my share of Visual C++ code in the last 5 years.
PyGTK is not as mature as Visual C++ for example, but it is much nicer to write 90% of your code in. The other 10% you have a lot of time left to work on, so its still nicer in the long run.
To continue your last point, not only do consumers need to think smart and purchase the better product from the better company, but its often financially irresponsible to do so.
I don't like shopping at Walmart, but many of the things my family wants are a better price there than other places I would rather shop.
How can the free market work when its often based on people supporting only the cheapest decision.
All you need is one phone number on your phone with a legally binding contract stating you may not reveal it to anyone else under any circumstances. Then pull out said document when asked for your phone.
The moral of the story is to get the law involved, press charges, and have the perpetrator fined or punished appropriately and the innocent one let go. Suspensions should be determined based on legality, not ignorance.
Those who compete either join up with other small companies to better compete with the large conglomerates or get absorbed by those conglomerates.
See AT&T, Verizon, Bell South, etc.
I would love to believe in the free market, but its a load of ____. Sometimes a competitor comes up who tries to stay independant, usually for personal pride reasons rather than monetary ones. If you study some historical economics, you'll realize this is actually how things work.
I'm just like the grandparent; I've done much the same thing on several occasions, and I know many others who do so as well.
The fact of the matter is, those who do not follow this pattern would not have paid for the content in the first place, so it is not in fact lost revenue.
The problem that still needs addressing is: Do we really want to limit cultural experiences to those who can afford them all (there's a limit)? I can't afford every CD I want to listen to, or every piece of artwork I'd like to look at or every book I want to read.
Luckily, we invented libraries for the last one.
How about the first two? Radio doesn't really count incidentally because of bias and advertising. The originators of Copyright in North America believed that works should be in the public domain in the not-so-long-run so as to allow as many americans access to culture and education as possible. Where did we go wrong?
Internet Explorer is a software package with a runtime license and not even shipped seperately from Windows at all. Highly irrelevant.
iTunes on the other hand is a store for a well-established art form (music) to be used on a PC or music players, but only unusable because Apple won't publish how to use music you, the consumer, have purchased.
You never purchased Internet Explorer.
Does GM have to allow third parties to make parts for its cars? yes. This was a huge battle before, and its being fought again in printer cartridges.
iTunes provides a service and a regular product. The service is available to all (previewing and listening to music). The product (purchased music) is only available on the PC in question or on iPod players.
Apple does not have to make iTunes work with others' players -- they simply have to give others the required information (and/or license it?) so that those players' manufacturers can make compatible players.
If in fact Apple is not making money selling the music in the first place, then it is breaking the law in many countries already by practicing unfair pricing. Apple should be making a profit on their music sales seperately from their music player sales. The fact that they are interrelated is irrelevant.
I think the term has become much more coloquial than you might realize.
"I'm gonna kill you" is a joke in many cases, to laugh at. Such as "I told the waiter its your birthday"... "I'm gonna kill you!"
Context is important.
That said, as another poster pointed out, this is a discipline issue, not a federal crime issue. As such, the school should be allowed to limit speach beyond what would be reasonable for the state to do.
More to the point, why would anyone want to purchase an OS from a company that designed an unmanageable operating system in the first place? What's changed since then to make this redesign better than the last attempts?
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Reiser3 works fine for me on FC3 and FC4. I understand people switch away because of some hooey about not working with selinux but its simply not true. Create your base install on ext3 if you want with a volume group to handle partitioning of space, now create a new filesystem after booting into FC4:
lvcreate -n spool vgroup1 mkreiserfs/dev/vgroup1/spool cd/var tar -cpf spool.tar spool mount/dev/vgroup1/spool/var/spool tar -xpf spool.tar
Run a fixfiles if you like, your filesystem should work fine. Welcome to faster spooling (cups, hylafax, whatever).
So very true -- one of my personal favorites is the "what CD do I want to play off the floor of the passenger's side of my car" driver.
You know the one, you pull up behind them and there's no driver's head visible through the window -- until their head pops up from being bent over into the passenger's side of the car and have seemingly retrieved a CD to play.
Equally depressing is the "how do I tune this stupid radio" driver who can't reach over and press buttons without turning their entire head (or body?) to face the radio first, thereby ignoring the highway.
Cell phones are dangerous, my unexposed anatomy. No more dangerous than driver idiocy. I know many people who can successfully drive while drinking coffee, listening to the radio, carrying on a decent conversation with a passenger or two and/or talk on a cell phone.
On the other hand, I have the utmost of respect for some drivers I know who cannot in fact concentrate while doing anything else and they will not get a drive-through coffee or listen to the radio while driving and will even ask you not to talk to them while they drive so they can concentrate.
Be aware of your limitations... don't legislate them on everyone else.
Understanding the difference between VA and Watts at the wall matters when measuring power usage vs. ratings, etc. That said, at the prices given I still don't care about the cost of leaving my PS2 plugged in 24/7.
When they take their eyes off you to think about it (and yup, people do exactly that when they're thinking, one of the reasons mobile phones are so dangerous in cars)
This would prove that radio talk shows cause accidents, that radio quiz shows cause accidents and that advertising causes accidents. For that matter, trying to figure out the nuance in the song you're listening to would cause accidents.
If you can't drive and talk on your cell phone, don't do it. But I've seen a lot of people who can't drive and talk to their passenger successfully either and yet that's still legal.
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For the record, its been 8 years now. They got the message loud and clear.
Besides, we have laws preventing harassing phone calls by companies once you've requested not to be called here in Canada. There are some exceptions for collections agencies, but they'd better have proof and a good reason to come after you when you drag them into court over it.
a) You do realize the PS3 runs Linux natively, right?
b) I bought a later generation PS2 and it has lasted very well. Never buy initial releases of new hardware technology.
c) I play dozens of games on my PS2 and its really amazing what can be done with 32MB of RAM.
See: God of War, Black, etc.
You know what? We didn't decide anything here in North America. We've never been given the choice.
I can't find a single canadian service provider that will give me cheap service for purchasing my own cell phone full price online.
Why? Because they lock those cell phones you buy from them to their service and get to guarantee a customer.
Many judges are smarter than lawyers would have you believe.
Its pretty obvious to a judge who's had ISP service for the last 5 years at his or her own home what did or did not transpire between you and the sign-up desk when you got your service.
Consider the judge in Alberta (Canada) who informed a car manufacturer that "everyone knows a good metal paint job will last 15 years" and forced them to repaint customers' cars where the paint had deteriorated in less than that.
If you get the wrong judge or a bad lawyer, sure, your verbal contract may not do you a bit of good, but in many situations, its pretty obvious what must have transpired for you to end up where you are now (especially when the one guy shows up with $1000/hr lawyers and you're representing yourself).
This is how I dealt with a certain company that offers 5 CDs for $5 ... we all know who that is.
I got my cheap CDs.
I bought two more like they said I had to, within a year.
I got bills on my credit card.
I called the CC company and told them they were fraudulent charges.
Company in question sent the collections people after me, so I told the two collections agents I talked to that unless they could arrange a piece of paper showing me a bill for exactly what I owed their client and why, I wasn't ever going to pay and I'd charge them with harassment if they ever called again.
I did a credit check on myself a year later and there was nothing about the situation on it, so I'm happy. I know a lot of people who've gone through the same thing and just bit the bullet and paid bills for things they didn't want though.
Firefox 1.5.0.4
Right-click toolbar, select customize.
Drag "bookmarks" button onto toolbar.
Voila, problem solved.
I hate to break it to you, but looking at the 20 or so PS2 games I still have on my shelf, the money I spent on the console itself is negligable in the long run.
If you're going to complain about a $100 price difference in consoles and that price difference is gone in two games, how many games are you planning to play? Three?
Assuming you'll buy a dozen or more games for either system over the long run, the price difference isn't there -- its about quality. I think Sony's got it right; price it high for early adopters like all other electronics, then knock the price down as it becomes possible.
Also known as why Microsoft made a lot more money than the UNIX vendors -- the UNIX vendors had mature products on their hands and were in maintenance mode with them. Microsoft was about new and flashy (and still is).
New and flashy sells more than mature and stable.
That's FUD.
I've been using NVidia's drivers for two years now with FC3, FC4 and FC5 downloaded from NVidia and installed per their instructions. The only problems I've ever had are when doing X upgrades my xorg.conf needs reconfiguring for dual-head output.
Its been a feature through hacks and language extensions.
This is a natural ability of the Python language, not a comment-based hack into your C++ code that breaks when you change whitespace.
And trust me, I've written my share of Visual C++ code in the last 5 years.
PyGTK is not as mature as Visual C++ for example, but it is much nicer to write 90% of your code in. The other 10% you have a lot of time left to work on, so its still nicer in the long run.
To continue your last point, not only do consumers need to think smart and purchase the better product from the better company, but its often financially irresponsible to do so.
I don't like shopping at Walmart, but many of the things my family wants are a better price there than other places I would rather shop.
How can the free market work when its often based on people supporting only the cheapest decision.
All you need is one phone number on your phone with a legally binding contract stating you may not reveal it to anyone else under any circumstances. Then pull out said document when asked for your phone.
The moral of the story is to get the law involved, press charges, and have the perpetrator fined or punished appropriately and the innocent one let go. Suspensions should be determined based on legality, not ignorance.
I get you fired for unlawful behaviour.
This just in -- competition doesn't exist.
Those who compete either join up with other small companies to better compete with the large conglomerates or get absorbed by those conglomerates.
See AT&T, Verizon, Bell South, etc.
I would love to believe in the free market, but its a load of ____. Sometimes a competitor comes up who tries to stay independant, usually for personal pride reasons rather than monetary ones. If you study some historical economics, you'll realize this is actually how things work.
I'm just like the grandparent; I've done much the same thing on several occasions, and I know many others who do so as well.
The fact of the matter is, those who do not follow this pattern would not have paid for the content in the first place, so it is not in fact lost revenue.
The problem that still needs addressing is: Do we really want to limit cultural experiences to those who can afford them all (there's a limit)? I can't afford every CD I want to listen to, or every piece of artwork I'd like to look at or every book I want to read.
Luckily, we invented libraries for the last one.
How about the first two? Radio doesn't really count incidentally because of bias and advertising. The originators of Copyright in North America believed that works should be in the public domain in the not-so-long-run so as to allow as many americans access to culture and education as possible. Where did we go wrong?
Internet Explorer is a software package with a runtime license and not even shipped seperately from Windows at all. Highly irrelevant.
iTunes on the other hand is a store for a well-established art form (music) to be used on a PC or music players, but only unusable because Apple won't publish how to use music you, the consumer, have purchased.
You never purchased Internet Explorer.
Does GM have to allow third parties to make parts for its cars? yes. This was a huge battle before, and its being fought again in printer cartridges.
Not at all the same.
iTunes provides a service and a regular product. The service is available to all (previewing and listening to music). The product (purchased music) is only available on the PC in question or on iPod players.
Apple does not have to make iTunes work with others' players -- they simply have to give others the required information (and/or license it?) so that those players' manufacturers can make compatible players.
If in fact Apple is not making money selling the music in the first place, then it is breaking the law in many countries already by practicing unfair pricing. Apple should be making a profit on their music sales seperately from their music player sales. The fact that they are interrelated is irrelevant.
Situation a) Four year old in the back seat, wife in the passenger seat.
...
Situation b) Cell phone
I'll take b) over a) any day, and the day the cops tell me its illegal to have my wife and kid in the car
I've said it before too.
I think the term has become much more coloquial than you might realize.
... "I'm gonna kill you!"
"I'm gonna kill you" is a joke in many cases, to laugh at. Such as "I told the waiter its your birthday"
Context is important.
That said, as another poster pointed out, this is a discipline issue, not a federal crime issue. As such, the school should be allowed to limit speach beyond what would be reasonable for the state to do.
More to the point, why would anyone want to purchase an OS from a company that designed an unmanageable operating system in the first place? What's changed since then to make this redesign better than the last attempts?
Reiser3 works fine for me on FC3 and FC4. I understand people switch away because of some hooey about not working with selinux but its simply not true. Create your base install on ext3 if you want with a volume group to handle partitioning of space, now create a new filesystem after booting into FC4:
/dev/vgroup1/spool /var /dev/vgroup1/spool /var/spool
lvcreate -n spool vgroup1
mkreiserfs
cd
tar -cpf spool.tar spool
mount
tar -xpf spool.tar
Run a fixfiles if you like, your filesystem should work fine. Welcome to faster spooling (cups, hylafax, whatever).
So very true -- one of my personal favorites is the "what CD do I want to play off the floor of the passenger's side of my car" driver.
... don't legislate them on everyone else.
You know the one, you pull up behind them and there's no driver's head visible through the window -- until their head pops up from being bent over into the passenger's side of the car and have seemingly retrieved a CD to play.
Equally depressing is the "how do I tune this stupid radio" driver who can't reach over and press buttons without turning their entire head (or body?) to face the radio first, thereby ignoring the highway.
Cell phones are dangerous, my unexposed anatomy. No more dangerous than driver idiocy. I know many people who can successfully drive while drinking coffee, listening to the radio, carrying on a decent conversation with a passenger or two and/or talk on a cell phone.
On the other hand, I have the utmost of respect for some drivers I know who cannot in fact concentrate while doing anything else and they will not get a drive-through coffee or listen to the radio while driving and will even ask you not to talk to them while they drive so they can concentrate.
Be aware of your limitations
Actually, his point was that it is science.
Understanding the difference between VA and Watts at the wall matters when measuring power usage vs. ratings, etc. That said, at the prices given I still don't care about the cost of leaving my PS2 plugged in 24/7.
This would prove that radio talk shows cause accidents, that radio quiz shows cause accidents and that advertising causes accidents. For that matter, trying to figure out the nuance in the song you're listening to would cause accidents.
If you can't drive and talk on your cell phone, don't do it. But I've seen a lot of people who can't drive and talk to their passenger successfully either and yet that's still legal.