Tell them they're getting a mandatory system upgrade, then put them in Kiosk mode, give them access to email, whatever office apps they have, and whatever other critical functions they need. If they ask for more, tell them it's been obsoleted. After all, they've got tenure, they're smart, right?
that patents ought to have a sunset provision, kind of a use-it or lose-it. Something along the lines of patents holding for 6 or 8 years, with a mandatory renewal at the end, and every two years after that. If the renewal is not optioned, an expiration notice is sent, with a 180 day grace period for renewal, and revocation afterwards. This will weed out a lot of dead wood in the patent world, and make the patenter's clearing house firms that make a killing on buying up old patents do more work to keep the system in check.
after dealing with labels, and coming out with a pricing scheme that matches as closely to the 99 cent across the board pricing as they're able to negotiate, they're investigated for price fixing. I notice after seeing this picked up in other places, that nobody has mentioned a word of the record labels forcing pricing schemes on Apple. Apple makes just shy of squat on the tracks, and having a universal price marketing ploy makes more sense than picking up a couple extra pennies a track in the UK. Methinks this stinks of someone looking in the wrong place for an answer.
Who gets to pick the nation? I assume that it refers to American, but I wonder how the rest of the world would like that idea. Then again, plant the flag, let them all head to Mars and try to take the land from us. You'll get my Mars when you pry it from my cold, dead, oxygen deprived fingers.
Where did I say I used Napster to steal music? I have 25gb worth of music ripped directly of of CDs I own. Doesn't mean I've never seen Napster used. I've held guns before too, does that make me a murderer?
When does changing an approach or whatever you want it to be called become selling out? How far do you have to justify it to yourself before it becomes repulsive to you? To me, I refuse to set the bar ever higher, once is enough for me.
I doubt that you'd do otherwise.
Boy how you'd get that one wrong if you'd put money on it. I'm an extremely principled person, and I don't sell out if it compromises my principles. If it's something I'm against doing, no price is enough for me. Not that you'll think I'm honest, but thats' you. And I recall how huge Napster was at the time, because I was there too. But keep in mind he DID straddle both sides of the fence, because at the same time he was trying to work with the labels, his company was suing them for illegally using their market position as a monopoly to drive upstarts out of business.
So far as pop culture goes, when a remake of a movie (which is a product placement for the new mini) becomes pop culture poking fun at pop culture, is when I say Enough. Everyone else is so content to let crap like this slide because it's no big deal, that they let the whole shebang slide down the drain. I'm an angry bastard about things like this because nobody else will be.
recalled his 15 minutes of fame yet? From the whole "napster" thing, to the nonsense in The Italian Job, I'm kind of sick of hearing about it. I really hope they aren't trying to capitalize on his name in order to sell music, it would seem like a shame to pimp yourself out to both sides of the fence like that.
I totally agree with you, but I think we should also not publish the names of the convicted, as we may offend their delicate sensibilities. Oh, and all criminal records must be expunged upon finishing the sentence for your crime, so that it doesn't hang over your head for the rest of your life. In fact, let's use secret code for criminal charges, so nobody will even know what crimes a person is accused of. We want these people to be able to walk proud amongst us, not as a possible danger to society, but instead as heros for pointing out potential weak spots in our social rhetoric.
And for all you pukes out there, that's spelled h-u-m-o-r. And it was sarcastic. Look it up.
Not plowing Meriden back into the Earth and salting the land after... what a dump. Urban decay at its best and brightest. I grew up one town over from there, and I can honestly say I don't blame the kid for it at all.
Wow, you know something, I just realized that nobody here has figured out how to compile themselves a sense of humor... people, you're taking things around here way too seriously these days. On the off chance that maybe none of you has a sense of humor, I'll defend myself in saying it was all in good fun.
Now, instead of waiting for the full featured OS to arrive in a few months, I can pay almost 4 times the price of a full release, and make all the features I want on my own! I hope that the next corvette to come out of GM costs $200,000 and comes in a bunch of boxes...
A helmut. I can't imagine how many people will be wearing this thing walking around bumping into things. You think people are ignorant of the world around them while on a cell phone? Wait until someone's walking around watching a rip of The Simpsons on dvd, or the most recent Daily Show. I fear trying to drive around the person wearing one of these. Unless it comes with a big bullseye bumper sticker...
AMD decides to follow suit. After the next round or two of evolutions, it'll be right back to square one of the Mhz battles. Somebody help me set my VCR back to 1992, I want to see how this one turns out.
before the record labels are sued as being a monopoly? I imagine the indy labels all rising up in a class action suit, but I mean seriously, it's been 5 years of announcements like this on an average of once a week or more, I want my music, I want it free (of restrictions) I'll pay a resonable price for decent music I enjoy listening to, and if I want to buy something on CD I'll go to a used CD store. I'm not just on music burnout, I'm afraid I've burned up all the fuel I've used to burn the pyre of hatred for the acts of RIAA and MPAA.... someone help, I need a transfusion.
But will it make Kent stop touching himself? Seriously though, this is awesome! Lasers are inherently cool, powerful lasers are for cutting James Bond in half.
this seems like something that needs the "validation" of print. It would make for a very informative read, clear up a lot of misconceptions, and not suffer from the "I read it on the internet" stigma. People are more likely to believe something if it doesn't glow when they read it.
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Tell them they're getting a mandatory system upgrade, then put them in Kiosk mode, give them access to email, whatever office apps they have, and whatever other critical functions they need. If they ask for more, tell them it's been obsoleted. After all, they've got tenure, they're smart, right?
I think you mean bred of PDA's.
that patents ought to have a sunset provision, kind of a use-it or lose-it. Something along the lines of patents holding for 6 or 8 years, with a mandatory renewal at the end, and every two years after that. If the renewal is not optioned, an expiration notice is sent, with a 180 day grace period for renewal, and revocation afterwards. This will weed out a lot of dead wood in the patent world, and make the patenter's clearing house firms that make a killing on buying up old patents do more work to keep the system in check.
after dealing with labels, and coming out with a pricing scheme that matches as closely to the 99 cent across the board pricing as they're able to negotiate, they're investigated for price fixing. I notice after seeing this picked up in other places, that nobody has mentioned a word of the record labels forcing pricing schemes on Apple. Apple makes just shy of squat on the tracks, and having a universal price marketing ploy makes more sense than picking up a couple extra pennies a track in the UK. Methinks this stinks of someone looking in the wrong place for an answer.
Who gets to pick the nation? I assume that it refers to American, but I wonder how the rest of the world would like that idea. Then again, plant the flag, let them all head to Mars and try to take the land from us. You'll get my Mars when you pry it from my cold, dead, oxygen deprived fingers.
Oh come on, awful is nowhere near strong enough a word. But that's the one I'm referring to...
When does changing an approach or whatever you want it to be called become selling out? How far do you have to justify it to yourself before it becomes repulsive to you? To me, I refuse to set the bar ever higher, once is enough for me.
So far as pop culture goes, when a remake of a movie (which is a product placement for the new mini) becomes pop culture poking fun at pop culture, is when I say Enough. Everyone else is so content to let crap like this slide because it's no big deal, that they let the whole shebang slide down the drain. I'm an angry bastard about things like this because nobody else will be.
recalled his 15 minutes of fame yet? From the whole "napster" thing, to the nonsense in The Italian Job, I'm kind of sick of hearing about it. I really hope they aren't trying to capitalize on his name in order to sell music, it would seem like a shame to pimp yourself out to both sides of the fence like that.
Wow, I was all set to prove myself right, and in re-reading his post, I proved myself wrong... wow, I join the ranks of the helmut patrol.
And PT Barnum's top competitor said, "There's a sucker born every minute." no, he didn't http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html/
a rumor that computers like heat. I think I'll try it out by removing the fans from all of my machines... they ought to blaze away after that...
It's probably because the Magna Carta is in the US Archives in Washington DC...
I totally agree with you, but I think we should also not publish the names of the convicted, as we may offend their delicate sensibilities. Oh, and all criminal records must be expunged upon finishing the sentence for your crime, so that it doesn't hang over your head for the rest of your life. In fact, let's use secret code for criminal charges, so nobody will even know what crimes a person is accused of. We want these people to be able to walk proud amongst us, not as a possible danger to society, but instead as heros for pointing out potential weak spots in our social rhetoric. And for all you pukes out there, that's spelled h-u-m-o-r. And it was sarcastic. Look it up.
Not plowing Meriden back into the Earth and salting the land after... what a dump. Urban decay at its best and brightest. I grew up one town over from there, and I can honestly say I don't blame the kid for it at all.
Instead of any of my other email addresses? Maybe I should post my Gmail address for you, I don't get enough spam there yet...
Wow, you know something, I just realized that nobody here has figured out how to compile themselves a sense of humor... people, you're taking things around here way too seriously these days. On the off chance that maybe none of you has a sense of humor, I'll defend myself in saying it was all in good fun.
What's a developer?
Now, instead of waiting for the full featured OS to arrive in a few months, I can pay almost 4 times the price of a full release, and make all the features I want on my own! I hope that the next corvette to come out of GM costs $200,000 and comes in a bunch of boxes ...
A helmut. I can't imagine how many people will be wearing this thing walking around bumping into things. You think people are ignorant of the world around them while on a cell phone? Wait until someone's walking around watching a rip of The Simpsons on dvd, or the most recent Daily Show. I fear trying to drive around the person wearing one of these. Unless it comes with a big bullseye bumper sticker...
AMD decides to follow suit. After the next round or two of evolutions, it'll be right back to square one of the Mhz battles. Somebody help me set my VCR back to 1992, I want to see how this one turns out.
before the record labels are sued as being a monopoly? I imagine the indy labels all rising up in a class action suit, but I mean seriously, it's been 5 years of announcements like this on an average of once a week or more, I want my music, I want it free (of restrictions) I'll pay a resonable price for decent music I enjoy listening to, and if I want to buy something on CD I'll go to a used CD store. I'm not just on music burnout, I'm afraid I've burned up all the fuel I've used to burn the pyre of hatred for the acts of RIAA and MPAA.... someone help, I need a transfusion.
well, I for one am totally blown away!
But will it make Kent stop touching himself? Seriously though, this is awesome! Lasers are inherently cool, powerful lasers are for cutting James Bond in half.
this seems like something that needs the "validation" of print. It would make for a very informative read, clear up a lot of misconceptions, and not suffer from the "I read it on the internet" stigma. People are more likely to believe something if it doesn't glow when they read it.