Even cheaper: just suggest to your fiancee that you should have a cheap wedding you you can afford more computers, and then you get to have no wedding at all, absolutely free!
So if a user has ever run Help.app, Safari should allow any webpage to run the Help.app remote exploits, since the user launched the program himself once?
Yes, it's very lame for someone with a website to answer a reader's question asking for tips on composition. He should have just told them that good composition has been around for a long time and he should piss off or go to art school or something. Right.
Oh. See, I'm an Objective C programmer, so I'd write those as OperationIdle, OperationWaitingToRun, etc. Maybe with a 2-letter prefix in front of each one to show which framework it came from. I don't feel the need to shout in my code.
The sound quality difference may be important to audiophiles who are listening to music, but I can't really see any reason why anyone would care when it comes to audio books.
Why would the city government care about saving people's personal messages? The problem is that important government documents are going to get deleted, not not their employees might lose 4 year old messages from friends that they were never going to read again anyway.
Yes, if you watch episodes you already taped, that would be time shifting. I'm not sure what Court ruling you're referring to, but I'm guessing they didn't rule that redistributing programs over the internet is also fair use.
As for the DRM comment, that just seems really pointless. If anything, they'd be more likely to distribute the new, ad-supported DRMed content on a website they control, so they can show the advertisers exactly how many downloads their ads are getting.
I'm also extremely skeptical in general that ad support based on the TV model would work even with a sufficient DRM technology; I don't think the ability to skip ads in a non-DRM'ed version is what would be stopping advertisers from shifting to a new medium. If you look at the relative amounts of money thrown into advertising on TV vs. the web, and consider how many more orders of magnitude of content there is on just the ad-supported websites vs. the amount on TV, it seems pretty unlikely a high-budget show like Futurama could ever support itself on such a model.
Ok, but Fox hasn't shown Futurama for quite some time, so you can no longer see Futurama for free.
Plus there's the fact that Futurama and Family Guy both may be coming back with new episodes because the strong DVD sales showed the idiots that there's an audience who wants to see them, and that Futurama's low ratings had a lot to do with the fact that they preempted the show in half the country to show football postgame just about every week. If everyone just traded the old episodes online, there'd be no chance at all of them coming back ever.
I was contrasting my view on victimless crimes with those on other nonviolent crimes. The parent to my post suggested that any jail time was inappropriate due to the nature of the crime, but I disagree. Reform of punishments for nonviolent offenders is a good idea, but burglars, identity thieves, and others who commit property crimes against individuals should not be seen as harmless people who just need to be fined.
Yes, and you don't get the death penalty for arson, unless you also killed someone and the prosecutor can prove you intended to kill them when you set the fire. The fact that you ruined someone's life doesn't mean the state should kill you, they just imprison you.
Bah. I'm very much opposed to lengthy jail sentences for nonviolent victimless crimes, but when it comes to fraud and identity theft in the service of a money-making scheme, I think jail time is an appropriate deterrent. If you just fine people for stuff like this, they'll keep doing it as long as the amount of the fine and their perceived likelihood of getting caught are offset by the profits they're making, just as many corporations see government fines for their illegal actions as part of the cost of doing business. If anything, jail time is much more of a deterrent for the types of crimes perpetrated by weasily fraudulent types than it is for tough violent offenders.
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Even cheaper: just suggest to your fiancee that you should have a cheap wedding you you can afford more computers, and then you get to have no wedding at all, absolutely free!
What happens if the expensive G5 processor fails? They should have used a 68040, because it would be cheaper to fix if it breaks.
So anyone who's a member of any state's Senate is a "United States Senator" and therefore able to vote on treaty ratifications?
So if a user has ever run Help.app, Safari should allow any webpage to run the Help.app remote exploits, since the user launched the program himself once?
Yes, it's very lame for someone with a website to answer a reader's question asking for tips on composition. He should have just told them that good composition has been around for a long time and he should piss off or go to art school or something. Right.
Oh. See, I'm an Objective C programmer, so I'd write those as OperationIdle, OperationWaitingToRun, etc. Maybe with a 2-letter prefix in front of each one to show which framework it came from. I don't feel the need to shout in my code.
Yes, and it's also technologically possible that 20th Century humans visited Mars. But they didn't.
The sound quality difference may be important to audiophiles who are listening to music, but I can't really see any reason why anyone would care when it comes to audio books.
adj.
4. Vulgar; coarse.
It's vulgar, but "most certainly" not profane? Shall I provide a definition of "certainly" too?
If you're going to be a pedant, at least get your definitions correct.
Google can find several sites which endorse any loony theory. What's your point?
Why would the city government care about saving people's personal messages? The problem is that important government documents are going to get deleted, not not their employees might lose 4 year old messages from friends that they were never going to read again anyway.
It's amazing that Apple joined the MPEG group before it had heard of music compression, dumbass.
Trust me, the script kiddies would be just as annoying if they used proper capitalization.
And do you give your constants names so long that you really need to use your caps lock key instead of just using shift?
As for the DRM comment, that just seems really pointless. If anything, they'd be more likely to distribute the new, ad-supported DRMed content on a website they control, so they can show the advertisers exactly how many downloads their ads are getting.
I'm also extremely skeptical in general that ad support based on the TV model would work even with a sufficient DRM technology; I don't think the ability to skip ads in a non-DRM'ed version is what would be stopping advertisers from shifting to a new medium. If you look at the relative amounts of money thrown into advertising on TV vs. the web, and consider how many more orders of magnitude of content there is on just the ad-supported websites vs. the amount on TV, it seems pretty unlikely a high-budget show like Futurama could ever support itself on such a model.
Plus there's the fact that Futurama and Family Guy both may be coming back with new episodes because the strong DVD sales showed the idiots that there's an audience who wants to see them, and that Futurama's low ratings had a lot to do with the fact that they preempted the show in half the country to show football postgame just about every week. If everyone just traded the old episodes online, there'd be no chance at all of them coming back ever.
That was technology, not mathematics.
You get Cartoon Network for free?
I suppose you wrote a kernel from scratch on paper before you ever touched an actual computer.
I was contrasting my view on victimless crimes with those on other nonviolent crimes. The parent to my post suggested that any jail time was inappropriate due to the nature of the crime, but I disagree. Reform of punishments for nonviolent offenders is a good idea, but burglars, identity thieves, and others who commit property crimes against individuals should not be seen as harmless people who just need to be fined.
Nice troll, unless "the grave" is new slang for prison.
It's a crime because the government defines it as a crime. Examples include drug possession and sodomy.
Yes, and you don't get the death penalty for arson, unless you also killed someone and the prosecutor can prove you intended to kill them when you set the fire. The fact that you ruined someone's life doesn't mean the state should kill you, they just imprison you.
Bah. I'm very much opposed to lengthy jail sentences for nonviolent victimless crimes, but when it comes to fraud and identity theft in the service of a money-making scheme, I think jail time is an appropriate deterrent. If you just fine people for stuff like this, they'll keep doing it as long as the amount of the fine and their perceived likelihood of getting caught are offset by the profits they're making, just as many corporations see government fines for their illegal actions as part of the cost of doing business. If anything, jail time is much more of a deterrent for the types of crimes perpetrated by weasily fraudulent types than it is for tough violent offenders.
Or maybe they don't want to pay Fandango an extra dollar to save a few minutes in line for a movie that probably won't sell out anyway?