Why do we refuse to buy the over-priced CD and instead decide to download it? Cost.
Why would we decide to start buying the over-priced CD if your HDD or CD-Rs were made cheaper? Cost.
Why have we not challenged it in court? Cost.
Lawsuits are much more expensive than the extra fine imposed on media. Even the settlements made with the RIAA would be cheaper if you were caught stealing. Go easy on the poor people, and we'll be happy to give money to the artists and even the record companies.
Nobody has actully gone to court yet from this, everyone is just getting a letter of "pay us or we sue" and people are seeing that the settlement is only a fraction of the costs that could be imposed from a judge.
While you're right, I find it sad that the whole purpose behind the bill of rights is to protect the citizens of the country, if they RIAA is able to circumvent the fourth amendment because they're not a government body, then it seems strange that they can liberate you of life, liberty, or the persuit of happiness without due process. That's the sixth amendment.
If a government entity violates someone's fourth amendement rights, then fines them, the person can challenge the fine because of the violation of the fourth amendment, if the challenge is held up, then the fine is dropped. That doesn't work with the RIAA because they're immune to the fourth amendment.
Personally I'd like to know when the RIAA became capable of issuing subpoenas. I thought those were only issued by courts.
A supoena can only be issued by a civil servant, and it has to be done in person. They're probably using the word very losely here, because they're not demanding an appearence in court, just the names of people that matched IP x, at time y.
Let's rename a few planets then. Current Venus will be renamed Pluto because Pluto controlled the underworld, which is hot and full of death, anybody visiting Venus would be dead, and hot at the same time. Venus is a hell hole, so "Pluto" is appropriate.
Next up is Venus, goddess of beauty. Mars is the only red planet we have, and it's nicknamed "the red planet", red is the symbol for passion, beauty leads to passion, Mars is 1/4 the size of Earth so it cannot be the god of war, we'll rename Mars to Venus.
Next is Mars. God of war. What better place than the planet that was created through war: Earth. We rename our current planet Mars, and everyone is happy. Even Jupiter.
You're also overlooking the fact that all that fuel has mass too, a lot of mass. As the trip's distance increases, so does the need for fuel, which means more weight before liftoff which means more fuel, which means more weight, etc.
The international community can't recognize Microsoft as a government entity, because it isn't one. If Microsoft's European branch were to suddenly declare chapter 11, or the European equivalent, then nothing happens. Microsoft could pack up and leave Europe, but the EU, even if it were a military entity as well as mostly fiancial, wouldn't be able to do anything about it. The only way this could be an issue would be for Microsoft to stop selling stuff in Europe, but then moving to Africa and exporting everything, then the EU could justify an action to the UN.
2. Intel Northwood P4 3.4 is good for general use.
Woah there. For general purpose use I'd go with whatever would be most cost-effective, and AMD is still clobbering Intel in that reguard.
The P4 would be great if you had a dedicated SETI@home server running 24/7 and you wanted to get some serious data analyzed, but not very many people would fall into that category, thus negating the "general" portion.
Someone needs to look a few pixels below the random quote: "All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest (C) 1997-2004"
That's because of the proteins that are tagged on the outside of the organs. Everyone's protein tags are different just like a finger print, with the exception of twins. You can donate something to a non-relative and keep it because the protein tags are close enough to each other that the immune will look over it.
Jupiter and Neptune have a LOT more mass than Earth, so it might be easier for them to slow down an incoming asteroid and get it to stay in orbit.
As for Mars and Earth, there are theories that the moon came from earth when an asteroid hit it during the early stages of the solar system's formation, the asteroid's hit could have caused the moon to spin out away from the earth, but not at such a speed to escape the earth's gravity. As far as Mars goes, both Daimos and Phobos are very tiny when compared to earth's moon, they probably got snagged by Martian gravity from the asteroid belt.
I'm sure there's software out there that would allow you to input your particular fan's noise via a microphone, then the software could phase shift it to create the negation effect, then produce that sound out a speaker. I'm no sound engineer or audiologist, but it shouldn't be too difficult.
Unreal Tournament 2004 (released today by the way) is being ported to Linux.
I agree though, Tux Racer is the best game. Ever.
As for being the key to Linux? It isn't gaming... it's root.
3drealms isn't in very much financial trouble, they have their hands in the Max Payne series, and that's doing quite well, I believe Max Payne 3 has been announced. After playing MP2 though, I wish they'd have spent that time in DNF.
It's not really that hard to prevent this sort of thing. We could tell the astroid that it has better things to do than cause a year of darkness for the planet, and it would consider this, then turn around. Another option would be to just get everyone to run in the same direction, Newton's third law would make the Earth go into the opposite direction of the running, and thus the asteroid would miss us by miles.... or feet anyway.
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There is a way to get trailers online, plus they're direct downloads, not streamed.
Why do we refuse to buy the over-priced CD and instead decide to download it? Cost. Why would we decide to start buying the over-priced CD if your HDD or CD-Rs were made cheaper? Cost. Why have we not challenged it in court? Cost. Lawsuits are much more expensive than the extra fine imposed on media. Even the settlements made with the RIAA would be cheaper if you were caught stealing. Go easy on the poor people, and we'll be happy to give money to the artists and even the record companies.
Nobody has actully gone to court yet from this, everyone is just getting a letter of "pay us or we sue" and people are seeing that the settlement is only a fraction of the costs that could be imposed from a judge.
While you're right, I find it sad that the whole purpose behind the bill of rights is to protect the citizens of the country, if they RIAA is able to circumvent the fourth amendment because they're not a government body, then it seems strange that they can liberate you of life, liberty, or the persuit of happiness without due process. That's the sixth amendment.
If a government entity violates someone's fourth amendement rights, then fines them, the person can challenge the fine because of the violation of the fourth amendment, if the challenge is held up, then the fine is dropped. That doesn't work with the RIAA because they're immune to the fourth amendment.
Personally I'd like to know when the RIAA became capable of issuing subpoenas. I thought those were only issued by courts.
A supoena can only be issued by a civil servant, and it has to be done in person. They're probably using the word very losely here, because they're not demanding an appearence in court, just the names of people that matched IP x, at time y.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Let's rename a few planets then. Current Venus will be renamed Pluto because Pluto controlled the underworld, which is hot and full of death, anybody visiting Venus would be dead, and hot at the same time. Venus is a hell hole, so "Pluto" is appropriate. Next up is Venus, goddess of beauty. Mars is the only red planet we have, and it's nicknamed "the red planet", red is the symbol for passion, beauty leads to passion, Mars is 1/4 the size of Earth so it cannot be the god of war, we'll rename Mars to Venus. Next is Mars. God of war. What better place than the planet that was created through war: Earth. We rename our current planet Mars, and everyone is happy. Even Jupiter.
You're also overlooking the fact that all that fuel has mass too, a lot of mass. As the trip's distance increases, so does the need for fuel, which means more weight before liftoff which means more fuel, which means more weight, etc.
The international community can't recognize Microsoft as a government entity, because it isn't one. If Microsoft's European branch were to suddenly declare chapter 11, or the European equivalent, then nothing happens. Microsoft could pack up and leave Europe, but the EU, even if it were a military entity as well as mostly fiancial, wouldn't be able to do anything about it. The only way this could be an issue would be for Microsoft to stop selling stuff in Europe, but then moving to Africa and exporting everything, then the EU could justify an action to the UN.
A few sites come to mind.
2. Intel Northwood P4 3.4 is good for general use. Woah there. For general purpose use I'd go with whatever would be most cost-effective, and AMD is still clobbering Intel in that reguard. The P4 would be great if you had a dedicated SETI@home server running 24/7 and you wanted to get some serious data analyzed, but not very many people would fall into that category, thus negating the "general" portion.
Someone needs to look a few pixels below the random quote:
"All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest (C) 1997-2004"
That's because of the proteins that are tagged on the outside of the organs. Everyone's protein tags are different just like a finger print, with the exception of twins. You can donate something to a non-relative and keep it because the protein tags are close enough to each other that the immune will look over it.
Who owns the patent office? The Feds. Who has unrestricted access to all patents in the same office? The Feds. Who's out of their friggin mind? SCO.
Jupiter and Neptune have a LOT more mass than Earth, so it might be easier for them to slow down an incoming asteroid and get it to stay in orbit. As for Mars and Earth, there are theories that the moon came from earth when an asteroid hit it during the early stages of the solar system's formation, the asteroid's hit could have caused the moon to spin out away from the earth, but not at such a speed to escape the earth's gravity. As far as Mars goes, both Daimos and Phobos are very tiny when compared to earth's moon, they probably got snagged by Martian gravity from the asteroid belt.
You forgot "Meteroid" which is a synonym for "asteroid". Watch that continuity!
You need to get a better BT client buddy. Any decent client will let you change the ports that're used for transfers.
Free Software shouldn't be equated with the right to brazenly steal from those who provide it.
Try telling that to SCO...
Actully the sky isn't falling, it's FLYING INTO SPACE! We have to hurry up and ship more mass to Earth before we lose our ENTIRE atmosphere!
I'm sure there's software out there that would allow you to input your particular fan's noise via a microphone, then the software could phase shift it to create the negation effect, then produce that sound out a speaker. I'm no sound engineer or audiologist, but it shouldn't be too difficult.
Unreal Tournament 2004 (released today by the way) is being ported to Linux. I agree though, Tux Racer is the best game. Ever. As for being the key to Linux? It isn't gaming... it's root.
3drealms isn't in very much financial trouble, they have their hands in the Max Payne series, and that's doing quite well, I believe Max Payne 3 has been announced. After playing MP2 though, I wish they'd have spent that time in DNF.
Of course they don't
*Eagerly points down at sig*
China ain't so bad, how about North Korea? Also communist, but much lower quality of life.
NORTH KOREA'S GOVERNMENT IS BAD!
Come and extradite me. I've never even BEEN to Asia.
It's not really that hard to prevent this sort of thing. We could tell the astroid that it has better things to do than cause a year of darkness for the planet, and it would consider this, then turn around. Another option would be to just get everyone to run in the same direction, Newton's third law would make the Earth go into the opposite direction of the running, and thus the asteroid would miss us by miles.... or feet anyway.