Everyone, the retailers, the talent, the consumers, are starting to realize that when the record industry bent them over the desk for a serious buggering, it turned out to not be as nice as they promised. It is, in fact, a bit of a pain.
You are right on about the visual inspection. I left that out of my list of steps. Just a couple of weeks ago I had a dead box. A quick visual inspection was all it took. Burn marks around the onboard video chip were obvious, so I gutted the system.
The standard procedure when a box won't even post is to remove everything, drives, memory, video cards, etc and boot it up. If it posts (listen to the beep), start adding crap back in, one at a time. It can be tedious, but it usually (not always) isolates the problem.
Sounds like bullshit to me. An idea should be expressible in any language. We will lose some poetry that doesn't work in any other language, but even great poetry needs someone to understand it to be able to appreciate it. It's unfortunate, but it's progress. Instead of some future great Chinese poet writing something in an unknown dialect, he will write it in Mandarin, or possibly even English.
Yes, some stuff is very language specific, but not always. My ex said the word-play in "Life of Brian" is even funnier in Hungarian.
Yeah, because the UN's warnings to Saddam were just about to work. Only one more was needed. Get real. Oh, and in case you missed it in the news, the people doing most of the killing are Islamofascist from other middle-eastern countries.
The person you are responding to is probably too young to have had to use calculators that didn't display the fancy equation in a multi-line high resolution screen. Yes, these days you can type in a very complex equation, verify that you didn't make a mistake by reading the screen, then get your graph printed out with one button. Back in my day, you had to stoke up the furnace to generate the steam before you could add two numbers together! And I had to walk to school five miles, up hill, both ways, in a blizzard... sorry, I digressed. These days RPN isn't really necessary, but I got used to it and tend to stumble a bit when faced with an algebraic notation calculator.
I still have my hacked hp-41CV. The keys are starting to act a little strange, and I no longer bother spending hours programming it. Now days, it sits on my desk for when I need to do some quick math. I love RPN!
I always hated the TI calculators. They were cheaply made and had all kinds of annoying problems, like the inability to read mag cards written from a different calculator even though it was the exact same model.
"Ok, we'll do a contract based on the contracts you force upon the artist. You'll get 5%, except we're going to use magic bookkeeping to guarantee that you will always owe us money, no matter how well the music sells. That's right, this time you are the bitch."
Alternately, tell them they get an amount exactly equal to what the artists receive, with auditing of the music industry books to verify the money is actually paid. Hell, offer them twice the amount the artist gets. They still won't go for it because they wouldn't want their books audited.
All I wanted was the SciFi channel. That's it. I didn't want HBO or Showtime. I certainly don't want a dozen different sports channels. Just the damn SciFi channel. It was only available on digital cable in a package for $90/month. I JUST WANT THE FUCKING SCIFI CHANNEL!
The rights written in the Bill of Rights apply to all humans, and are not granted by the Constitution. The Constitution just reminds the Federal government that it can not revoke these rights, or change them. Habeas Corpus is an inherent right for all humans that we must demand to keep fully removed from any government's desire to remove it or restrain it.
This is something I've always believed in rather strongly. Our Founding Fathers believed everyone was born with certain rights that could not be taken away by the government and the most important purpose of the government is to protect these rights. Whether the rights are "God Given" or "Natural" are left up to the individual to decide.
However, it is not the duty of our government to protect the rights of non-citizens outside of this country. That would be right bloody mess as it would require us to invade every country in the world that violated our Constitution. Er. Uh, oh.
The first time some porn gets through their filters, I'm going to sue their ass. Hey, just because I typed, "hot teen lesbian action" doesn't mean I actually want to see that stuff!
Say what? Wanting certain games to require parental approval to be purchased does NOT make me lazy. Just the opposite. It means I have to drive down to the game store to puchase the stupid thing instead of letting the kid do whatever he/she wants.
It means I MUST DECIDE WHAT IS RIGHT, not you, not society, not the store. I MAKE THE CHOICE.
In your crazed logic you were somehow able to get the exact opposite meaning.
At the moment, you have to pass a test to graduate to prove you actually learned something. Most kids don't have any real comprehension that slacking off today is going to have dire consequences tomorrow. So this guy decides to get their attention through something they actually give a shit about, and everyone here on slashdot calls him an idiot.
"It's not his job to be those kids mom". Yep, you are right. So mom could lie and say he got good grades, or just buy her idiot son (with a promising future in the fast food service industry) the latest game. Problem solved.
I don't have a problem with what he was doing, though I think he would have been in a better position to offer discounts for good grades.
I also don't have a problem with certain types of games requiring an adult to purchase them. Again, it's not the store deciding if the kid gets the game or not. The parent will make the ultimate decision. Without the limitation, the parent doesn't get any say.
Oh, for you idiot teenagers with mod points today that will be modding me down as flamebait or a troll. Kiss my ass. You'll have kids one day. Your entire attitude will change.
Note to dad: Uhm, you remember when I was a teenager and was a complete asshole. I'm sorry about that. You were right.
In other words if I was being monitored by my parents I'd have simply found a way to make sure they can't see what I'm doing. At worst I'd have told them to f-off and challenged them to do something about it.
My stepdaughter tried that shit on me. I told her to get in line or I'd turn off her internet access. Her response was, "As if you could." (she said a lot more, mostly involving obscenities). 5 seconds later she was screaming because she didn't have any internet access. She lost it for an entire month.
Never piss off your parent when he's a system administrator and personally built the home network.
Run a transparent proxy. Lock down the network so that no one can access the internet except through the proxy. You can then add your mostly useless parental controls (e.g. SquidGuard). The only feature that is truly useful is a timer to turn of internet access late at night (and possibly during school hours). Hell, I probably should have used that on myself.
Did you get a box with stuff in it when you joined the gym? I didn't think so. Plus, you sign a contract spelling out the limitations ahead of time, before you hand over the money.
Software is like a book. You can give away a book. You can loan a book. You can sell a book. All perfectly legal and the publisher can't do a damn thing about it. That's the law. Someone the software industry thinks they are special. If it was a custom package you hired a firm specifically to write for you, the contract could include some weird limitations (and you were an idiot for allowing that crap in the contract), but over the counter software is sold in the same manner as a book and falls under the same "first sale doctrine."
You say there's a license included with the software? So f*ing what. You can't be held to a contract you could not read before making the purchase. Take it home, open the package, and read the contract, you say? And? You've already paid for it. You can't apply a new contract to a deal that's already done (unless you are dumb enough to accept it). Plus, even if you read it and didn't like the contract (license), good luck returning the software. Nobody takes back software. The last time I tried the store (Best Buy) flat out refused.
When the leaders of the global warming craze start acting like it's a problem, then I might pay attention. At the moment, however, they are too busy flying around the world spreading their gospel to bother acting like it's a problem.
No, I don't expect a CEO to get thrown into jail because of one crooked employee. However, the CEO should be held fully responsible if he allowed a "culture of corruption" to exist in his corporation. One time is a fluke, a bunch of times is company policy.
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Everyone, the retailers, the talent, the consumers, are starting to realize that when the record industry bent them over the desk for a serious buggering, it turned out to not be as nice as they promised. It is, in fact, a bit of a pain.
That pretty much covers every bit of knowledge known to man. So they can arrest anyone they wish using this law. That was, no doubt, the entire point.
You are right on about the visual inspection. I left that out of my list of steps. Just a couple of weeks ago I had a dead box. A quick visual inspection was all it took. Burn marks around the onboard video chip were obvious, so I gutted the system.
The standard procedure when a box won't even post is to remove everything, drives, memory, video cards, etc and boot it up. If it posts (listen to the beep), start adding crap back in, one at a time. It can be tedious, but it usually (not always) isolates the problem.
Sounds like bullshit to me. An idea should be expressible in any language. We will lose some poetry that doesn't work in any other language, but even great poetry needs someone to understand it to be able to appreciate it. It's unfortunate, but it's progress. Instead of some future great Chinese poet writing something in an unknown dialect, he will write it in Mandarin, or possibly even English.
Yes, some stuff is very language specific, but not always. My ex said the word-play in "Life of Brian" is even funnier in Hungarian.
Yeah, because the UN's warnings to Saddam were just about to work. Only one more was needed. Get real. Oh, and in case you missed it in the news, the people doing most of the killing are Islamofascist from other middle-eastern countries.
Yeah, but every time we do, you Europeans scream like schoolgirls.'
How about we think the UN is useless because they haven't done a fucking thing to stop the genocide in Darfur, to name one of many world crises.
The UN to murdering governments, "Stop, or we'll stay 'stop' again."
The person you are responding to is probably too young to have had to use calculators that didn't display the fancy equation in a multi-line high resolution screen. Yes, these days you can type in a very complex equation, verify that you didn't make a mistake by reading the screen, then get your graph printed out with one button. Back in my day, you had to stoke up the furnace to generate the steam before you could add two numbers together! And I had to walk to school five miles, up hill, both ways, in a blizzard... sorry, I digressed. These days RPN isn't really necessary, but I got used to it and tend to stumble a bit when faced with an algebraic notation calculator.
A more plausible explanation is that his performance art is major shit, as is all performance art.
I still have my hacked hp-41CV. The keys are starting to act a little strange, and I no longer bother spending hours programming it. Now days, it sits on my desk for when I need to do some quick math. I love RPN!
I always hated the TI calculators. They were cheaply made and had all kinds of annoying problems, like the inability to read mag cards written from a different calculator even though it was the exact same model.
"Ok, we'll do a contract based on the contracts you force upon the artist. You'll get 5%, except we're going to use magic bookkeeping to guarantee that you will always owe us money, no matter how well the music sells. That's right, this time you are the bitch."
Alternately, tell them they get an amount exactly equal to what the artists receive, with auditing of the music industry books to verify the money is actually paid. Hell, offer them twice the amount the artist gets. They still won't go for it because they wouldn't want their books audited.
All I wanted was the SciFi channel. That's it. I didn't want HBO or Showtime. I certainly don't want a dozen different sports channels. Just the damn SciFi channel. It was only available on digital cable in a package for $90/month. I JUST WANT THE FUCKING SCIFI CHANNEL!
This is something I've always believed in rather strongly. Our Founding Fathers believed everyone was born with certain rights that could not be taken away by the government and the most important purpose of the government is to protect these rights. Whether the rights are "God Given" or "Natural" are left up to the individual to decide.
However, it is not the duty of our government to protect the rights of non-citizens outside of this country. That would be right bloody mess as it would require us to invade every country in the world that violated our Constitution. Er. Uh, oh.
The first time some porn gets through their filters, I'm going to sue their ass. Hey, just because I typed, "hot teen lesbian action" doesn't mean I actually want to see that stuff!
Say what? Wanting certain games to require parental approval to be purchased does NOT make me lazy. Just the opposite. It means I have to drive down to the game store to puchase the stupid thing instead of letting the kid do whatever he/she wants.
It means I MUST DECIDE WHAT IS RIGHT, not you, not society, not the store. I MAKE THE CHOICE.
In your crazed logic you were somehow able to get the exact opposite meaning.
ARE YOU ON DRUGS?
More like what Martin Luther was to the Catholic Church.
I'm going to run out and buy their latest CD.
.....
Oh, wait
At the moment, you have to pass a test to graduate to prove you actually learned something. Most kids don't have any real comprehension that slacking off today is going to have dire consequences tomorrow. So this guy decides to get their attention through something they actually give a shit about, and everyone here on slashdot calls him an idiot.
"It's not his job to be those kids mom". Yep, you are right. So mom could lie and say he got good grades, or just buy her idiot son (with a promising future in the fast food service industry) the latest game. Problem solved.
I don't have a problem with what he was doing, though I think he would have been in a better position to offer discounts for good grades.
I also don't have a problem with certain types of games requiring an adult to purchase them. Again, it's not the store deciding if the kid gets the game or not. The parent will make the ultimate decision. Without the limitation, the parent doesn't get any say.
Oh, for you idiot teenagers with mod points today that will be modding me down as flamebait or a troll. Kiss my ass. You'll have kids one day. Your entire attitude will change.
Note to dad: Uhm, you remember when I was a teenager and was a complete asshole. I'm sorry about that. You were right.
My stepdaughter tried that shit on me. I told her to get in line or I'd turn off her internet access. Her response was, "As if you could." (she said a lot more, mostly involving obscenities). 5 seconds later she was screaming because she didn't have any internet access. She lost it for an entire month.
Never piss off your parent when he's a system administrator and personally built the home network.
It's not perfect, but it's something.
Run a transparent proxy. Lock down the network so that no one can access the internet except through the proxy. You can then add your mostly useless parental controls (e.g. SquidGuard). The only feature that is truly useful is a timer to turn of internet access late at night (and possibly during school hours). Hell, I probably should have used that on myself.
Did you get a box with stuff in it when you joined the gym? I didn't think so. Plus, you sign a contract spelling out the limitations ahead of time, before you hand over the money.
Software is like a book. You can give away a book. You can loan a book. You can sell a book. All perfectly legal and the publisher can't do a damn thing about it. That's the law. Someone the software industry thinks they are special. If it was a custom package you hired a firm specifically to write for you, the contract could include some weird limitations (and you were an idiot for allowing that crap in the contract), but over the counter software is sold in the same manner as a book and falls under the same "first sale doctrine."
You say there's a license included with the software? So f*ing what. You can't be held to a contract you could not read before making the purchase. Take it home, open the package, and read the contract, you say? And? You've already paid for it. You can't apply a new contract to a deal that's already done (unless you are dumb enough to accept it). Plus, even if you read it and didn't like the contract (license), good luck returning the software. Nobody takes back software. The last time I tried the store (Best Buy) flat out refused.
When the leaders of the global warming craze start acting like it's a problem, then I might pay attention. At the moment, however, they are too busy flying around the world spreading their gospel to bother acting like it's a problem.
You might want to turn off displaying changes while you are working on a document:
No, I don't expect a CEO to get thrown into jail because of one crooked employee. However, the CEO should be held fully responsible if he allowed a "culture of corruption" to exist in his corporation. One time is a fluke, a bunch of times is company policy.