They get the financial backing and buying power that Dell can provide them as well as money for the purchase. I would say the money for the purchase is the reason for selling. That and the stress of financial constraints being lessened.
I have no use or desire for an MP3 player, but I would buy this one in a second if it were cheap. Hell if there were actual instructions I would attempt to build it.
Let's also not forget that the MIT guys lit a dry docked boat on fire. The Mythbusters were trying to prove or disprove a myth so they used one actually in the water. Wet wood vs dry wood is likely to make a huge difference. When the MIT guys brought thier contraption out to test on a boat that was in the water they could not light it on fire either. They did get some smoke, but nothing that threatened the boat.
The only thing new that I have noticed as of late is that the porn is no longer the top searches displayed and does not show in the box of catagories when you log in. I took this to mean that thier long time focus on being used for gathering the porn of Usenet was switching to other media now. They do not appear to be providing anything new or changing thier service, just changing the aspect of it that they promote.
Specifically EMC has a "Compliance Edition" Centera that is designed for just such compliance requirements. One of the softwares mentioned and the Centera would allow you to archive a copy of every e-mail as it is sent or recieved. That way it doesn't matter what the end user does with thier e-mail. Both products also allow you to archive end user mail as well. What I mean by this is that the user will see all the mail in their inbox, but anything over a certain age will actually be stored on the SAN and not on the e-mail server. Many in these threads do not understand why you wouldn't just throw extra harddrive space to it. That then requires additional tape for a tape backup and makes for a much longer restore in a diaster situation. Also it makes it take longer for offline defragmentation. Plus opening a mailbox that has hundreds of thousands of e-mail in it can impact the server and not just the client. Also if you are talking about a Microsoft Exchange server the smaller the information store the more stable the server is.
EMC and Veritas have both bought companies(Legato and KVS) that provide not only this type of service, but also single instance storage. If someone sends out an attachement to 50 people, only one is actually put into storage. There are other vendors that have similar products, but these are the only two I have first hand knowledge of. The best practice if you are not legally required to keep e-mail(as financial institutions are by SEC requirements) seems to be a short retention policy. If you do not keep the e-mail then it cannot be used against you. It is also best to enforce the policy because if it is discovered that you have the e-mail then you are required to produce it. Financial industries however are required to keep all electronic communications for atleast 3 years, but that extrends to 7 if the data in question is in litigation.
Just transfer the account and move on. This is how any MMO does it. You can only register 1 account with the box-key, and if you want to transfer it they won't stop you.
It sounds like he bought his copy used from the store. There is no way for him to get the previous users info to attempt this, and they have already said that they will not transfer accounts.
This is not just a WoW issue. Many MMORPGs are doing this. For example I bought a new copy of City of Heros for my fiance. The tape didn't look quite right on the box, but the guy at the register swore that it had not been returned and it was thier only copy so I bought it. When I opened it everything did look new so I didn't think anything more of it at first. When we tried to set up her account though we ran into the problem of the key having been used. Atleast with them though I quick fax of the key and my reciept and we had a new key e-mailed within a day.
If $5,000,000 in stuff is ripped off from Wal Mart every year but they only catch 5 shoplifters are those five liable for $1,000,000 each? Why then are file sharers liable for damages other than those representitive of the fair market value of the files on their systems?
The difference is that the person caught shoplifting is not clicking a button and making additional copied of the items he/she has stollen. They are not giving copies out to other individuals. That is why file sharers are liable for more than a shoplifter would be. They are increasing the amount of the product that is out there, thus taking a larger market share. If three people download from them they are then responsible for four copies of the item instead of just one. That is the difference that most people don't seem to see when discussing this subject.
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but to the best of my knowledge there have not been any law suits based on downloading. They are all based on distributing instead. It is those that share who get sued not those that download and never share it.
The parallel between sharing a file and shoplifting fines is just not there. Now if the person who shoplifted the season made copies and gave them away then there would be a parallel to compare fines.
Out there mean available. Torrent sites, fansites, forums, FTP sites, and any other method of publishing applies. It does not really matter if the person who originally subbed it takes it off thier website or not. They have created and distributed the material. They are thus responsible for that material. Argueing otherwise would be like saying that whoever originally posted the star wars kid video removed it and thus it has vanished "without trace"(a phrase used by many people in this debate to describe what has happened to anime that has been released). Look I don't care if you download or not. If you want to download the stuff then do it, but don't think that you are being any more moral than those that do so after it has been released in your territory.
As I said, go search for this material now and you will find it. It does not dissapear from the net. You can still get it from fansites all over. Many of the people I am refering to started downloading because they saw the episodes on cartoon network. The material is certainly still out there and easily available. Those that provide the material to download to begin with whether it is available in the territory or not are also acting illegally. Whether they are acting more morally then those that are sharing it after the fact is irrelevent to whether the act is legal or not.
I keep hearing this "as soon as it is released in the target company it dissapears from the web". Does anyone actually believe this? Do a search for Inuyasha, Witch Hunter Robin, or any of the others that cartoon network currently show. They are still very much online both in subbed form and in the new translated form. Everyone that I know who downloads Anime gives me the same speach about only downloading it because they can't get it in the US, and then when thier show comes to the US they certainly don't buy DVDs of them. The most common reason given, "Why would I buy it I have it on my computer?"
Hey Enterprise writers, could you take a look down. That thing swiming below you, that is a shark. You are in the air because you are jumping it. Now take a look behind you. See those other 15 sharks, you jumped them as well.
I used to love Enterprise, but time travel and special guest apperances always get out of hand. Though the episode with the Borg even though that was technically a special guest appearance was great.
I never said I agreed with the policy. I am a big supporter of stem cell research and would like to see a much more open funding policy. Denying funding is not banning though. It may lead to an inability for some to do the research, but they still have the potential of doing it if they get the funding. If someone says he underfunded or missfunded stem cell research that is a true statement. If they say that he implimented a policy that is far too restrictive that is opinion, but I would still say that that is also true. If they say that he banned stem cell research however, that is not true. You are letting your politics blind you to a simple concept of truth vs lies. Cause and effect are irrelevant in the case of whether the statement is true or not.
I have seen FAR more post favoring Bush get modded down than those against him. The anti-Bush movement is rabid on Slashdot, though lately it does seem to be leveling out some. I personally hate Bush myself but I did think he was a better choice than Kerry and I hate to see blanket statements like "He banned stem cell research" that is simply not true. A misleading statement I can handle, an outright false one I cannot.
Stem cell research was illegal in the US before Clinton made it legal. If you are claiming that previous presidents have funded it please provide some links to proof.
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They get the financial backing and buying power that Dell can provide them as well as money for the purchase. I would say the money for the purchase is the reason for selling. That and the stress of financial constraints being lessened.
I have no use or desire for an MP3 player, but I would buy this one in a second if it were cheap. Hell if there were actual instructions I would attempt to build it.
Let's also not forget that the MIT guys lit a dry docked boat on fire. The Mythbusters were trying to prove or disprove a myth so they used one actually in the water. Wet wood vs dry wood is likely to make a huge difference. When the MIT guys brought thier contraption out to test on a boat that was in the water they could not light it on fire either. They did get some smoke, but nothing that threatened the boat.
The only thing new that I have noticed as of late is that the porn is no longer the top searches displayed and does not show in the box of catagories when you log in. I took this to mean that thier long time focus on being used for gathering the porn of Usenet was switching to other media now. They do not appear to be providing anything new or changing thier service, just changing the aspect of it that they promote.
The 64-bit edition gives up to 16 gigs of physical memory. It does allow up to 16 terebytes of virtual memory.
If anyone is there please point out that XP will not recognize over 4 gigs of RAM.
Specifically EMC has a "Compliance Edition" Centera that is designed for just such compliance requirements. One of the softwares mentioned and the Centera would allow you to archive a copy of every e-mail as it is sent or recieved. That way it doesn't matter what the end user does with thier e-mail. Both products also allow you to archive end user mail as well. What I mean by this is that the user will see all the mail in their inbox, but anything over a certain age will actually be stored on the SAN and not on the e-mail server. Many in these threads do not understand why you wouldn't just throw extra harddrive space to it. That then requires additional tape for a tape backup and makes for a much longer restore in a diaster situation. Also it makes it take longer for offline defragmentation. Plus opening a mailbox that has hundreds of thousands of e-mail in it can impact the server and not just the client. Also if you are talking about a Microsoft Exchange server the smaller the information store the more stable the server is.
I have also read the coverage prior. It was more than a closet of additional tapes. They found 1000 tapes in off site storage.
EMC and Veritas have both bought companies(Legato and KVS) that provide not only this type of service, but also single instance storage. If someone sends out an attachement to 50 people, only one is actually put into storage. There are other vendors that have similar products, but these are the only two I have first hand knowledge of. The best practice if you are not legally required to keep e-mail(as financial institutions are by SEC requirements) seems to be a short retention policy. If you do not keep the e-mail then it cannot be used against you. It is also best to enforce the policy because if it is discovered that you have the e-mail then you are required to produce it. Financial industries however are required to keep all electronic communications for atleast 3 years, but that extrends to 7 if the data in question is in litigation.
I enjoy PVPonline myself.
Just transfer the account and move on. This is how any MMO does it. You can only register 1 account with the box-key, and if you want to transfer it they won't stop you.
It sounds like he bought his copy used from the store. There is no way for him to get the previous users info to attempt this, and they have already said that they will not transfer accounts.
This is not just a WoW issue. Many MMORPGs are doing this. For example I bought a new copy of City of Heros for my fiance. The tape didn't look quite right on the box, but the guy at the register swore that it had not been returned and it was thier only copy so I bought it. When I opened it everything did look new so I didn't think anything more of it at first. When we tried to set up her account though we ran into the problem of the key having been used. Atleast with them though I quick fax of the key and my reciept and we had a new key e-mailed within a day.
If $5,000,000 in stuff is ripped off from Wal Mart every year but they only catch 5 shoplifters are those five liable for $1,000,000 each? Why then are file sharers liable for damages other than those representitive of the fair market value of the files on their systems?
The difference is that the person caught shoplifting is not clicking a button and making additional copied of the items he/she has stollen. They are not giving copies out to other individuals. That is why file sharers are liable for more than a shoplifter would be. They are increasing the amount of the product that is out there, thus taking a larger market share. If three people download from them they are then responsible for four copies of the item instead of just one. That is the difference that most people don't seem to see when discussing this subject.
Maybe I'm wrong about this, but to the best of my knowledge there have not been any law suits based on downloading. They are all based on distributing instead. It is those that share who get sued not those that download and never share it.
The parallel between sharing a file and shoplifting fines is just not there. Now if the person who shoplifted the season made copies and gave them away then there would be a parallel to compare fines.
What would you consider a "reputable" bittorrent site?
Out there mean available. Torrent sites, fansites, forums, FTP sites, and any other method of publishing applies. It does not really matter if the person who originally subbed it takes it off thier website or not. They have created and distributed the material. They are thus responsible for that material. Argueing otherwise would be like saying that whoever originally posted the star wars kid video removed it and thus it has vanished "without trace"(a phrase used by many people in this debate to describe what has happened to anime that has been released). Look I don't care if you download or not. If you want to download the stuff then do it, but don't think that you are being any more moral than those that do so after it has been released in your territory.
As I said, go search for this material now and you will find it. It does not dissapear from the net. You can still get it from fansites all over. Many of the people I am refering to started downloading because they saw the episodes on cartoon network. The material is certainly still out there and easily available. Those that provide the material to download to begin with whether it is available in the territory or not are also acting illegally. Whether they are acting more morally then those that are sharing it after the fact is irrelevent to whether the act is legal or not.
I keep hearing this "as soon as it is released in the target company it dissapears from the web". Does anyone actually believe this? Do a search for Inuyasha, Witch Hunter Robin, or any of the others that cartoon network currently show. They are still very much online both in subbed form and in the new translated form. Everyone that I know who downloads Anime gives me the same speach about only downloading it because they can't get it in the US, and then when thier show comes to the US they certainly don't buy DVDs of them. The most common reason given, "Why would I buy it I have it on my computer?"
"Oh no, you can't take my photograph."
"Oh, I'm sorry, you believe it will take your spirit away?"
"No, you got a lens-cap on."
Hey Enterprise writers, could you take a look down. That thing swiming below you, that is a shark. You are in the air because you are jumping it. Now take a look behind you. See those other 15 sharks, you jumped them as well.
I used to love Enterprise, but time travel and special guest apperances always get out of hand. Though the episode with the Borg even though that was technically a special guest appearance was great.
I never said I agreed with the policy. I am a big supporter of stem cell research and would like to see a much more open funding policy. Denying funding is not banning though. It may lead to an inability for some to do the research, but they still have the potential of doing it if they get the funding. If someone says he underfunded or missfunded stem cell research that is a true statement. If they say that he implimented a policy that is far too restrictive that is opinion, but I would still say that that is also true. If they say that he banned stem cell research however, that is not true. You are letting your politics blind you to a simple concept of truth vs lies. Cause and effect are irrelevant in the case of whether the statement is true or not.
Clinton said that he was going to fund them. He made a big press deal out of it, but he never followed through.
Thanks alot, now I will have that song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
I have seen FAR more post favoring Bush get modded down than those against him. The anti-Bush movement is rabid on Slashdot, though lately it does seem to be leveling out some. I personally hate Bush myself but I did think he was a better choice than Kerry and I hate to see blanket statements like "He banned stem cell research" that is simply not true. A misleading statement I can handle, an outright false one I cannot.
Stem cell research was illegal in the US before Clinton made it legal. If you are claiming that previous presidents have funded it please provide some links to proof.