Someone has to bring it up, so it might as well be me! Opera7 mail folders are really filters onto the mail database, meaning you can have the same message in multiple folders. Just in case you didnt know:)
I'd love SPAM that offered me things I wanted, especially if they were good deals! It would save me having to search for them.
Honestly I think the situation is like this: Worms are bad, but ignorant people allow them to propogate and interfere with the whole net. In order to prevent or help this interference, this worm fixes what those people should have (at least ideally). Yes, it costs bandwidth. Big boohoo. So do a lot of other stupid things.
Actually it is common practice in advertising to use the number 1 product's name in your ad, because people already know about it.
And in truth, mentioning MSN search engine would probably have a negative affect in this case. It sounds like negative propaganda to me, but then it is often difficult to differentiate in articles...
Difference being that the ads in Times Square were built and funded for a different purpose (ie. street traffic). A can of Coke in a movie is usually a deliberate placement, costing Coke a bunch of money to be seen by the viewers specifically. Similarily with a webpage banner ad, it is purchased specifically to be seen by the webpage user. Covering up the Coke can in the movie is kin to covering the banner ad on the webpage.
But I think the issue is much deeper than covering ads, and centers more around control of one's own media technology.
I never claimed it wasn't illegal, but that doesn't make it theft. Murder isnt theft either. And it's not theft of service, it's not theft of anything! Get it yet!?
It is copyright infringment. Absolutely it is illegal, and may go against some peoples morals. I explicitly said it bugs me when people start calling COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT as theft. And yes, the RIAA bugs me because of that.
What, so if I buy enough Fords, I get to start stealing them?
I claimed no such thing. For starters you're comparing apples to oranges (copyright infringement is not theft). Also, prices of CD's are artificially high, and the whole setup is forced down our throats by a corrupt government and legal system. Such a situation is not only illegal (as in the price fixing case recently), but also immoral (in my view, and many other file sharers). So, eye for an eye? Does that make sense to you? If a large organization can steal from me, can I steal back from them? If I have no other means to fight it?
Anyways, I certainly never said I think its legal or right to file share. But I do know what it isn't.
It bugs the hell out of me when people start calling COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT as theft. I can download all the songs I want and I am not stealing. For that matter, I can photocopy all the books I want and redistribute them as my own and I'm still not stealing. One of the reasons I really disagree with the large institutions such as the RIAA is that to them everything is advertising. If calling it theft sounds better, despite whether it is true or not, then thats what they call it.
Secondly, I'd really appreciate it if you could define and explain 'moral high ground' to me. Seems to me that 'morals' are a subjective idea which we collectively as a society have decided to try and define, for the present, and agree upon how we will use them. Don't try to tell me that you morals are better than my own without some kind of evidence.
Finally, there is a reason that most downloaders do not feel guilty: They have already paid $1000's to record companies for music. File sharing only started a couple years ago, and most file sharers are divided into 2 groups; kids and teens, and 20 or 30 year olds. The kids and teens don't care or know any better, and even if they did would love it all the more as a rebellion. 20 and 30 year olds who actually download music have most undoubtably forked over a whole bunch of money to the record companies.
On a side note, I agree with the view that industries need to adjust to their changing environment. If an artist can no longer make money doing the same old routine anymore, then do what everyone else does: find a new way. You'd think us in the IT industry would know that better than anyone.
Installed fine on my RH9. As someone else said, it took a while to download, but other than that it went pretty smooth (actually the download quit twice because of 'network' troubles...). God stuff! I like it!
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I guess its not spyware if its written somewhere in the EULA... deep, deep within the EULA...
Did anyone else notice that the text kept sizing up as the article went down. Sorta puts a funky light on the whole thing...
Opera7 Mail. Works like a charm.
Someone has to bring it up, so it might as well be me! Opera7 mail folders are really filters onto the mail database, meaning you can have the same message in multiple folders. Just in case you didnt know :)
I'd love SPAM that offered me things I wanted, especially if they were good deals! It would save me having to search for them. Honestly I think the situation is like this: Worms are bad, but ignorant people allow them to propogate and interfere with the whole net. In order to prevent or help this interference, this worm fixes what those people should have (at least ideally). Yes, it costs bandwidth. Big boohoo. So do a lot of other stupid things.
Actually it is common practice in advertising to use the number 1 product's name in your ad, because people already know about it.
And in truth, mentioning MSN search engine would probably have a negative affect in this case. It sounds like negative propaganda to me, but then it is often difficult to differentiate in articles...
Difference being that the ads in Times Square were built and funded for a different purpose (ie. street traffic). A can of Coke in a movie is usually a deliberate placement, costing Coke a bunch of money to be seen by the viewers specifically. Similarily with a webpage banner ad, it is purchased specifically to be seen by the webpage user. Covering up the Coke can in the movie is kin to covering the banner ad on the webpage.
But I think the issue is much deeper than covering ads, and centers more around control of one's own media technology.
I never claimed it wasn't illegal, but that doesn't make it theft. Murder isnt theft either. And it's not theft of service, it's not theft of anything! Get it yet!?
It is copyright infringment. Absolutely it is illegal, and may go against some peoples morals. I explicitly said it bugs me when people start calling COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT as theft. And yes, the RIAA bugs me because of that.
What, so if I buy enough Fords, I get to start stealing them?
I claimed no such thing. For starters you're comparing apples to oranges (copyright infringement is not theft). Also, prices of CD's are artificially high, and the whole setup is forced down our throats by a corrupt government and legal system. Such a situation is not only illegal (as in the price fixing case recently), but also immoral (in my view, and many other file sharers). So, eye for an eye? Does that make sense to you? If a large organization can steal from me, can I steal back from them? If I have no other means to fight it?
Anyways, I certainly never said I think its legal or right to file share. But I do know what it isn't.
It bugs the hell out of me when people start calling COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT as theft. I can download all the songs I want and I am not stealing. For that matter, I can photocopy all the books I want and redistribute them as my own and I'm still not stealing. One of the reasons I really disagree with the large institutions such as the RIAA is that to them everything is advertising. If calling it theft sounds better, despite whether it is true or not, then thats what they call it.
Secondly, I'd really appreciate it if you could define and explain 'moral high ground' to me. Seems to me that 'morals' are a subjective idea which we collectively as a society have decided to try and define, for the present, and agree upon how we will use them. Don't try to tell me that you morals are better than my own without some kind of evidence.
Finally, there is a reason that most downloaders do not feel guilty: They have already paid $1000's to record companies for music. File sharing only started a couple years ago, and most file sharers are divided into 2 groups; kids and teens, and 20 or 30 year olds. The kids and teens don't care or know any better, and even if they did would love it all the more as a rebellion. 20 and 30 year olds who actually download music have most undoubtably forked over a whole bunch of money to the record companies.
On a side note, I agree with the view that industries need to adjust to their changing environment. If an artist can no longer make money doing the same old routine anymore, then do what everyone else does: find a new way. You'd think us in the IT industry would know that better than anyone.
Ok, 7.5x7.5x2 inches is not my definition of fitting in the palm of my hand. Thats bigger than the drive bay mini computers.
Installed fine on my RH9. As someone else said, it took a while to download, but other than that it went pretty smooth (actually the download quit twice because of 'network' troubles...). God stuff! I like it!