People like you whine and whine until something happens to YOU, than your high-horse rant on "personal responsibility" goes right out the window of your lawyer's office.
It's not about getting rich (but hey, honestly, why not?), it's about making companies pay attention and take responsibility. Sure, she could have sued for $50. Do you think that would have registered on Yahoo's radar? These days if you want a corp to pay attention, you need to sue for a number that makes them look up from their Wall Street Journal.
It's a good thing that telco is not the same now as it was 10, 20 years ago. My bet is that they do have alturnatives, and of course there is always a complaint to the state regulators to make the bosses take notice...
Well, there is this thing that most browsers have, it's called the "status bar". It's located at the bottom of your browser (if it's not there, you can enable it in Tools). When you "mouse" over the link, the status bar tells you about the link! It's very 20th century.
It's not the drives that set you back with RAID 5. It's the RAID card. SATA drives are cheap now. Not everyone can plunk down the cash for a card that will accomodate RAID 5.
The inevitable situation is that we will have unlimited space -- that is, more than we can fill. So what happens when we can quite easily put every piece of digital media we've ever even thought about owning -- all the movies, all the games -- on a single disk, without ever having to delete anything?
I think the $10 price of a ticket is starting to dim the "Magic" of movies more than bootlegs...
It's more than the ticket price, it's the postage stamp sized "big" screens and snacks priced so high, you'd think they where gold plated, not to mention being forced to watch commercials for 20 minutes before the movie starts. The product that theater owners are pushing just isn't worth it anymore.
If you want any kind of response to a question here, you're going to have to somehow fit P2P, the RIAA, and some obscure Linux distro into it. If you can find some Richard Stallman quote that can be construed to be related, that would be good as well.
'When I patch my Linux box I don't need to bring it up and down any number of times.'
Sure this is an inconvenience, but (still) overrated. It's just not a major issue to reboot a machine. Word. Move on.
What continues to be a major road block to widespread adoption of Linux by the masses is not just patching, but just installing applications at all. It just can not be said with a straight face that installing patches or an application on Linux is as easy as with Windows for average computer users. There are just way too many pitfalls that can trap a user in hours and days of searching for strange dependencies and other things. And a smooth GUI installer....
In Oregon, where I come from, this is great news that wine drinkers will understand. This is a big win for QUALITY small wine makers, but really will not make that much difference to the E and G crowd.
But consider this: It is a big loss for "states rights", because it says that states have no right to control interstate commerce that passes through their borders.
...the article mentioned that the industry needs something that can get people excited about going to the movies.
The Movie Industry says that due to lukewarm sales at the box office, ticket prices have to go up. Some say the turn out is low because it's more convenient to watch movies at home. I say this is BULLSHIT.
People do not go to the theaters anymore because it's not worth $10 a crack to see a movie on a screen that is not much larger than a big screen TV. Why spend $30 to $50 for a family to go out and watch a movie on a crappy screen? There is no reason.
Make screens as large as they used to be, and cap theater prices at $8. They will fill seats even for second run pictures.
The theater industry insults it's customers with a shitty product and than wonders why sales numbers are going down?
Who the hell in their right mind REALLY wants to watch a pirated film on a TV, for Christ's sake? NO ONE!
First of all, it's probably still going to be faster because MS is incapable of writing anything but bloated featuritis-devastated code.
With every release, FF gets bigger and bigger, and is not noticeably faster than IE. And, it has atrocious memory management. Your biased comment is not based on facts.
Second, FireFox will still be more standards-based as MS as already said they don't want to support the latest CSS version.
This is complete rumor. As yet, Microsoft has not made a committed response to this question. By the way, which version of CSS does FF support? What's the "latest" version? Hmmmm.
Third, FireFox is still OSS and that will matter to everybody to whom it DOES matter.
Which is really not that many as far as web surfers go.
By end of 2005, I still suspect FF will have been downloaded at least 100 million times and have 8-15% of the browser market - which is remarkable when you consider that Netscape, Opera and the rest only achieved 3% of the market over the last five years.
8 to 10% seems to be a ceiling. I predict it will not go much higher, if at all.
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Obviously not. Had you taken the time, you might have learned something.
When I read the little Slashdot snip, I thought of Roland!
People like you whine and whine until something happens to YOU, than your high-horse rant on "personal responsibility" goes right out the window of your lawyer's office.
There is nothing in this BBC story that is not in most collage text books that cover this aspect of chemistry and physics.
It's not about getting rich (but hey, honestly, why not?), it's about making companies pay attention and take responsibility. Sure, she could have sued for $50. Do you think that would have registered on Yahoo's radar? These days if you want a corp to pay attention, you need to sue for a number that makes them look up from their Wall Street Journal.
Funny thing, in this case, the link clearly shows that it is a PDF.
It's a good thing that telco is not the same now as it was 10, 20 years ago. My bet is that they do have alturnatives, and of course there is always a complaint to the state regulators to make the bosses take notice...
Well, yeah, Apple products have so much good history with batteries and all.
Well, there is this thing that most browsers have, it's called the "status bar". It's located at the bottom of your browser (if it's not there, you can enable it in Tools). When you "mouse" over the link, the status bar tells you about the link! It's very 20th century.
It's not the drives that set you back with RAID 5. It's the RAID card. SATA drives are cheap now. Not everyone can plunk down the cash for a card that will accomodate RAID 5.
11 T-1s...
You know, that's a chunk of change. If your telco is not giving you good service, "talk" to them about it.
850gb is more than anyone will ever need...
The thing that interested me was the weighted springs UNDER the keys...
Why is it ALWAYS Timmy who posts the Roland infomercials?
It's more than the ticket price, it's the postage stamp sized "big" screens and snacks priced so high, you'd think they where gold plated, not to mention being forced to watch commercials for 20 minutes before the movie starts. The product that theater owners are pushing just isn't worth it anymore.
You're splitting hairs to justify doing something that is clearly ethically wrong, that is pirating movies, music, and software.
If you want any kind of response to a question here, you're going to have to somehow fit P2P, the RIAA, and some obscure Linux distro into it. If you can find some Richard Stallman quote that can be construed to be related, that would be good as well.
Yeh sure, yada, yada, yada. Don't like the stories at Slashdot? Go to k5 or Technocrat.net.
The REAL question should be, what the FUCK does this story have to do with my rights on line?
I run RHEL 3 and 4, both on my workstation and several servers.
Sure this is an inconvenience, but (still) overrated. It's just not a major issue to reboot a machine. Word. Move on.
What continues to be a major road block to widespread adoption of Linux by the masses is not just patching, but just installing applications at all. It just can not be said with a straight face that installing patches or an application on Linux is as easy as with Windows for average computer users. There are just way too many pitfalls that can trap a user in hours and days of searching for strange dependencies and other things. And a smooth GUI installer....
dupe
...Stuff that happened two weeks ago.
But consider this: It is a big loss for "states rights", because it says that states have no right to control interstate commerce that passes through their borders.
The Movie Industry says that due to lukewarm sales at the box office, ticket prices have to go up. Some say the turn out is low because it's more convenient to watch movies at home. I say this is BULLSHIT.
People do not go to the theaters anymore because it's not worth $10 a crack to see a movie on a screen that is not much larger than a big screen TV. Why spend $30 to $50 for a family to go out and watch a movie on a crappy screen? There is no reason.
Make screens as large as they used to be, and cap theater prices at $8. They will fill seats even for second run pictures.
The theater industry insults it's customers with a shitty product and than wonders why sales numbers are going down?
Who the hell in their right mind REALLY wants to watch a pirated film on a TV, for Christ's sake? NO ONE!
With every release, FF gets bigger and bigger, and is not noticeably faster than IE. And, it has atrocious memory management. Your biased comment is not based on facts.
Second, FireFox will still be more standards-based as MS as already said they don't want to support the latest CSS version.
This is complete rumor. As yet, Microsoft has not made a committed response to this question. By the way, which version of CSS does FF support? What's the "latest" version? Hmmmm.
Third, FireFox is still OSS and that will matter to everybody to whom it DOES matter.
Which is really not that many as far as web surfers go.
By end of 2005, I still suspect FF will have been downloaded at least 100 million times and have 8-15% of the browser market - which is remarkable when you consider that Netscape, Opera and the rest only achieved 3% of the market over the last five years.
8 to 10% seems to be a ceiling. I predict it will not go much higher, if at all.