The Japanease government provides a considerable assitance and incentive for their companies to cooperate as well. Such a proposition is unheard of in the US, where much effort is spent ensuring systems DON'T inter-operate, all in the name of profit. SMS is a prime example, in Europe or Japan, you can cross systems seamlessly, such a simplistic seeming idea would take an act of god here.
LOL and there is a recoverable cost which CAN IN FACT be successfully sued for I KNOW, I DID IT in Contra Costa County(Calif) Small claims court. I was called twice by the same telemerketer with a 2 month period. I took them to small claims court to recover the loss, they never showed, I got a day off work (payed) the cost of a months' cell bill, and written assurance that my name and phone number had been removed. You may not like it but thats the way it is:)
you got a point, there is a huge usage difference between europe, japan and the us. It is probably due to the lack of interoperability between systems here. I can't send an sms message to anyone, only those on my system. There is no incentive for the companies to cooperate:(
and you are a perfect spokesperson for the Prophylactic industry. If YOU want people to leave M$ products then contribute, or you can just hide behind an AC tag and continue to show your best side..ASSHAT.
oh and by the way I wanna slap your lazy trash ho mother for failing to think of the rest of the world and allowing you out in public with you lips not sewn shut:)
what killer FPS has blizzard put out ? They have some very nice realtime strategy games and a click fest called diablo which was fun but neither would qualify as a first person shooter.
err how about per minute charges for everything as a real argument..I have no per minute charges for anything defined as local. While I am sure the phone system quality has little difference, the billing system is much better for local calls at least here in the US. Why am I responding to an AC ? Must be time for a break...
is mis-information better than no information ? I have 15 safeway discount cards in various names with various phone numbers, all false. I register daily with the NY Times and several other publications via a random login generator that fills in all the fields in their DB with BS. If you can't avoid a login, fill up the companies DB with BS.
You got the right idea Talkischeap. Barring accidents you're only as old as you let yourself become. I recommend liberal doses of concert. If you can't name a band to go see, the YOU REALLY NEED to just go and see one, anyone:) I've been saying for years that while I am getting older I don't plan on growing up, because adults ARE BORING.
they are called excel and directX. Work requires these heinously complex excell workbooks that every other office suite I've ever used has failed to render correctly. That is probably M$'s fault and not the other office suite but I have no choice in that matter. The directX part is because I like to game, I like to play new games, not wait for a port to be coded. I like to play online games when they are still popular. While Linux is begginning to see some games it may be a while before Grand Theft Auto 3 runs, or say Soldier of Fortune 2. I'd LOVE to be able to do away with M$ is lieu of Linux, but it has got to fill all my needs first of all.
What with their inane system restore function, and the worse SystemFileProtection crap, the windows media player is consider a system file ?!?! After minutes of cursing I found an article by a helpful hacker who advised killing the statemgr and poof no more Media player:)
I can still see The Who on stage..I was 14 and it was in the very early 70's..The world changed that summer for me, while I've been a detractor of their last few trips out, The Who remained one of the most outstanding memories of my childhood. God Bless him where ever he is.
is it my fault that a web site owner built his business on a poorly thought out, flawed system such as ad driven ? I totally ignore comercials on my tv, and record over them on my VCR/Tivo as well. How I veiw a web page is my choice entirely ? Fonts, pictures etc, any other ruling is silly. The offshoot of this is to require a particular browers so that your site is rendered faithfully as you intended ? What is i use Lynx and can't se any pictures ? is that illegal too ?
where do they come up with the value for this ? Bandwidth is NOT a comodity, it has NO FUTURES, you have a certain amount, it is used or it goes by, no saving it for later. This is like the value that the RIAA puts on music pirating, pulled totally out of someones ass, just to involve the FBI because of value.
I like my pages to have been updated in this century..Yahoo's index is SOOO outdated often the top ranked page will be from 1998..great search engine if you want outdated incorrect or just plain wrong information, or you only really want results from Yahoo premier partners:)
Do you Yahoo ? I used to but my palms started getting hairy so I had to stop.
NPR gets hit with a brick named reality, and they'll reconsider their policy, what a laugher. If you don't want your stuff being linked to DO NOT PUT IT ON THE NET, on a public web server.
"As to the first, you can no longer resell the book (I believe you can't even sell paperbacks missing the cover). For the second, a cd copy is exactly the same (minus liner notes)."
That is not true, the publishers would like you to think it is true but there is no legal grounds for that at all. The statement is directed to the retailer practice of returning covers only to save on shipping and reporting the rest of the book destroyed...why send back last months poor trashy romance novels..
They apply here, dump illegal chemicals into the environment that would have cost 5 billion to do correctly, get caught and fined 50 million. Our EPA, hell our entire government apparatus is so corporatized it is scary living here. The only saving grace is I can gather anywhere and BIATCH about it to anyone, and I have an arsenal sufficient to supply a combat squad:)
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Cookies themselves are just code, its how they are used, or misused that is a problem.
The Japanease government provides a considerable assitance and incentive for their companies to cooperate as well. Such a proposition is unheard of in the US, where much effort is spent ensuring systems DON'T inter-operate, all in the name of profit. SMS is a prime example, in Europe or Japan, you can cross systems seamlessly, such a simplistic seeming idea would take an act of god here.
LOL and there is a recoverable cost which CAN IN FACT be successfully sued for I KNOW, I DID IT in Contra Costa County(Calif) Small claims court. I was called twice by the same telemerketer with a 2 month period. I took them to small claims court to recover the loss, they never showed, I got a day off work (payed) the cost of a months' cell bill, and written assurance that my name and phone number had been removed. You may not like it but thats the way it is :)
if the M$ booth was politely ignored as offtopic :)
you got a point, there is a huge usage difference between europe, japan and the us. It is probably due to the lack of interoperability between systems here. I can't send an sms message to anyone, only those on my system. There is no incentive for the companies to cooperate :(
and you are a perfect spokesperson for the Prophylactic industry. If YOU want people to leave M$ products then contribute, or you can just hide behind an AC tag and continue to show your best side..ASSHAT.
:)
oh and by the way I wanna slap your lazy trash ho mother for failing to think of the rest of the world and allowing you out in public with you lips not sewn shut
what killer FPS has blizzard put out ? They have some very nice realtime strategy games and a click fest called diablo which was fun but neither would qualify as a first person shooter.
err how about per minute charges for everything as a real argument..I have no per minute charges for anything defined as local. While I am sure the phone system quality has little difference, the billing system is much better for local calls at least here in the US.
Why am I responding to an AC ? Must be time for a break...
is mis-information better than no information ?
I have 15 safeway discount cards in various names with various phone numbers, all false. I register daily with the NY Times and several other publications via a random login generator that fills in all the fields in their DB with BS. If you can't avoid a login, fill up the companies DB with BS.
You got the right idea Talkischeap. Barring accidents you're only as old as you let yourself become. I recommend liberal doses of concert. If you can't name a band to go see, the YOU REALLY NEED to just go and see one, anyone :) I've been saying for years that while I am getting older I don't plan on growing up, because adults ARE BORING.
they are called excel and directX. Work requires these heinously complex excell workbooks that every other office suite I've ever used has failed to render correctly. That is probably M$'s fault and not the other office suite but I have no choice in that matter. The directX part is because I like to game, I like to play new games, not wait for a port to be coded. I like to play online games when they are still popular. While Linux is begginning to see some games it may be a while before Grand Theft Auto 3 runs, or say Soldier of Fortune 2. I'd LOVE to be able to do away with M$ is lieu of Linux, but it has got to fill all my needs first of all.
What with their inane system restore function, and the worse SystemFileProtection crap, the windows media player is consider a system file ?!?! After minutes of cursing I found an article by a helpful hacker who advised killing the statemgr and poof no more Media player :)
:)
Some day it will be POOF and no more Windows
but games on my PDA suck. They are pointless adaptations of pointless games, I'd much rather read a good book, and I don't mean a lousy e-book.
I can still see The Who on stage..I was 14 and it was in the very early 70's..The world changed that summer for me, while I've been a detractor of their last few trips out, The Who remained one of the most outstanding memories of my childhood.
God Bless him where ever he is.
is it my fault that a web site owner built his business on a poorly thought out, flawed system such as ad driven ? I totally ignore comercials on my tv, and record over them on my VCR/Tivo as well. How I veiw a web page is my choice entirely ? Fonts, pictures etc, any other ruling is silly. The offshoot of this is to require a particular browers so that your site is rendered faithfully as you intended ? What is i use Lynx and can't se any pictures ? is that illegal too ?
where do they come up with the value for this ? Bandwidth is NOT a comodity, it has NO FUTURES, you have a certain amount, it is used or it goes by, no saving it for later. This is like the value that the RIAA puts on music pirating, pulled totally out of someones ass, just to involve the FBI because of value.
What did you do actually read the article ? That is contrary to /. policy :)
using my copyrighted material I can do the same thing ?
I like my pages to have been updated in this century..Yahoo's index is SOOO outdated often the top ranked page will be from 1998..great search engine if you want outdated incorrect or just plain wrong information, or you only really want results from Yahoo premier partners :)
Do you Yahoo ? I used to but my palms started getting hairy so I had to stop.
I have LOTS of PHISH shows on DAT..love recording a show..the memory value alone is great :)
Moby may have stumbled (accidently) onto a truism, but the newest album aint't selling because it is poor, not because of pirating.
I just don't happen to think MOBY is worth buying, or listening to for that matter.
NPR gets hit with a brick named reality, and they'll reconsider their policy, what a laugher.
If you don't want your stuff being linked to DO NOT PUT IT ON THE NET, on a public web server.
but this is getting so small it will become a liabilty and get lost...
"As to the first, you can no longer resell the book (I believe you can't even sell paperbacks missing the cover). For the second, a cd copy is exactly the same (minus liner notes)."
That is not true, the publishers would like you to think it is true but there is no legal grounds for that at all. The statement is directed to the retailer practice of returning covers only to save on shipping and reporting the rest of the book destroyed...why send back last months poor trashy romance novels..
They apply here, dump illegal chemicals into the environment that would have cost 5 billion to do correctly, get caught and fined 50 million. Our EPA, hell our entire government apparatus is so corporatized it is scary living here. The only saving grace is I can gather anywhere and BIATCH about it to anyone, and I have an arsenal sufficient to supply a combat squad :)