With the election system of the US, it's always 2 parties with nobody having thet slightest chance to muscle in, at best in local elections (which, frankly, have no impact on copyright laws).
It's even worse for single-issue parties. The design of the American democratic system essentially precludes these parties from gaining power--the lack of a proportional party-based legislature, and the lack of an excutive branch formed out of the legislature. The former situation requires a newcomer to win a substantial number of districts outright to have any real power, and the latter precludes a small number of legislators from such a single-issue party from wielding lynchpin power in forming governments.
Compare this to say, Sweden, where you vote for parties, and any party garnering over 4% of the vote (country-wide) gets legislative representation, without having to have majority support in any region. Then, such a party can make demands upon the larger parties seeking their support in forming a government.
I'm not advocating either form of democracy (I've seen the downside of both systems, having lived in both above-named countries), I personally dislike political parties and their influence. In fact the US constitution was intentionally crafted to prevent the influence of "factions" (source: The Federalist Papers), however futile this effort was...
Unfortunately you can't do a chargeback on this, unless you lie to your CC company. When you pay the $50, you have agreed to the charge, and (probably) do receive the service you pay for. I like the other route though. File cheaply in a local small claims court, file for the maximum small claims amount, and wait for godaddy to react. If the don't, profit! Or, if you want to be serious about it, file a charge of extortion with the FBI, and file a civil suit for extortion too...
The article is, as all such articles are, sparse on details, especially the negative ones...
Like, what's the capacity in mAh/cm3 or mAh/g? Also, powerful capacitors can kill, as they can discharge essentially instantaneously, whereas chemical batteries tend not to... Of course IANAEE...
No, I know exactly what the CU survey entails (I am a CU member/CR subscriber). The reality here is that what you suggest to be "objective" questions add another layer of subjective input--the pollster's. But none of this negates my original postulate--that Apple people are skewing the results based upon their "life choice". Even the questions you list can easily, even subconsciously, be skewed to favour Apple. Nobody keeps a log of their phone calls' lengths, etc.
I think you're the one making the possibly invalid assumption. The great majority of less techinical people are buying Windows systems because "that's what on the computer" or "that's what they had at the computer store", etc. Yes, Macs aren't from bizarro world. But they don't have to be that different to warrant my logic above. Linux would fit even more so, at least for now. Apple even markets this: remember "Think different"?
You're correct, however that wasn't my point. My point was that if you could download something directly and later watch it using mplayer, you could also download the streaming version using mplayer.
All that Consumer Report's quality survey shows is that people using Apple's products are happy having made the "alternative" choice. Choosing Apple's products represents a lifestyle choice ("I am going to be different"), whereas choosing a PC does not. It would be harder for an Apple person to admit they made a lifestyle choice than for a PC user to admit they bought from the wrong PC company.
For an analogy, around the Bay Area, people are buying new and old diesel cars and converting them to run on used cooking oil. Now, regardless of how their cars run vis-á-vis gasoline engines, how will they respond to the question "Are you happy with how well your car is running?"
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Unlikely. Ask them to provide a signed receipt, or other evidence of acceptance of goods. Even if your credit card company doesn't believe you, they can't make you pay, or pay interest, while the item is in dispute. Of course the seller can sue you, but the onus is upon them to prove you received the goods...
Risky? That's why credit cards have a thing called "charge backs". It's not like you're stuffing hundreds of pounds (literally) of coins into that thing...
Exactly. Where am I going to be that I need this? Even 3rd class airline seats are coming with power slots for laptops, etc. Everywhere else I have computed in the past 10 years hasn't been very far from an electric outlet...
It's sort of like the old nuclear weapons on ships thing. "We will neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on board this vessel." If they didn't have any, why not just say so? Because, we want to keep our enemies guessing.
Well, yes, but in reality it's because if one could find out which ships didn't have nuclear arms, one then immediately knows which ships do...
The funny thing about the government's actions in this case is that it seems that they are essentially admitting to breaking the law by claiming state secrecy.
Yes, you and all other leechers like you avail yourselves to countless government services on a daily basis, all the time decrying whatever taxes you do or don't pay.
You do receive fire, police, military protection. Your McDonald's analogy sucks--you can't compare services to real goods. A better analogy would be insurance. But then you probably only think you should pay premiums once you have a claim, and then probably only what you feel like paying, if anything at all.
If you want us to believe that you don't have to pay your fair share to society, then stop taking what society pays for. I'll even grant you those services you can't avoid receiving. But otherwise, for a year, stay off our streets and sidewalks, stay out of our schools and government-funded universities and hospitals (i.e. all of them), stay off our internet, phone network, don't watch public television, or any television, or use electricity for that matter, don't receive or send mail, don't purchase goods or services from those who've availed themselves of such, don't use US currency. If you can refrain from using these and all other avoidable services and goods the government pays/enables/provides for, for one year, then I will support your having your taxes repaid with interest, for that year.
We'll throw in a year's worth of fire, police and defense services as an apology.
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Compare this to say, Sweden, where you vote for parties, and any party garnering over 4% of the vote (country-wide) gets legislative representation, without having to have majority support in any region. Then, such a party can make demands upon the larger parties seeking their support in forming a government.
I'm not advocating either form of democracy (I've seen the downside of both systems, having lived in both above-named countries), I personally dislike political parties and their influence. In fact the US constitution was intentionally crafted to prevent the influence of "factions" (source: The Federalist Papers), however futile this effort was...
The US already holds a Swedish citizen at Guantanamo, in violation of US and international law...
Unfortunately you can't do a chargeback on this, unless you lie to your CC company. When you pay the $50, you have agreed to the charge, and (probably) do receive the service you pay for. I like the other route though. File cheaply in a local small claims court, file for the maximum small claims amount, and wait for godaddy to react. If the don't, profit! Or, if you want to be serious about it, file a charge of extortion with the FBI, and file a civil suit for extortion too...
Other performance or quality issue, you say?
The article is, as all such articles are, sparse on details, especially the negative ones...
Like, what's the capacity in mAh/cm3 or mAh/g? Also, powerful capacitors can kill, as they can discharge essentially instantaneously, whereas chemical batteries tend not to... Of course IANAEE...
No, I know exactly what the CU survey entails (I am a CU member/CR subscriber). The reality here is that what you suggest to be "objective" questions add another layer of subjective input--the pollster's. But none of this negates my original postulate--that Apple people are skewing the results based upon their "life choice". Even the questions you list can easily, even subconsciously, be skewed to favour Apple. Nobody keeps a log of their phone calls' lengths, etc.
It's likely you won't get the bandwidth, or the latency will be too high, ports will be blocked, etc...
pe-key? No, the writer just spent too much time in the Canadian "French immersion" school...
I think you're the one making the possibly invalid assumption. The great majority of less techinical people are buying Windows systems because "that's what on the computer" or "that's what they had at the computer store", etc. Yes, Macs aren't from bizarro world. But they don't have to be that different to warrant my logic above. Linux would fit even more so, at least for now. Apple even markets this: remember "Think different"?
You're correct, however that wasn't my point. My point was that if you could download something directly and later watch it using mplayer, you could also download the streaming version using mplayer.
All that Consumer Report's quality survey shows is that people using Apple's products are happy having made the "alternative" choice. Choosing Apple's products represents a lifestyle choice ("I am going to be different"), whereas choosing a PC does not. It would be harder for an Apple person to admit they made a lifestyle choice than for a PC user to admit they bought from the wrong PC company.
For an analogy, around the Bay Area, people are buying new and old diesel cars and converting them to run on used cooking oil. Now, regardless of how their cars run vis-á-vis gasoline engines, how will they respond to the question "Are you happy with how well your car is running?"
Take a look at: http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/g-titles.htm
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The DVD links on the standard Ubuntu download page all point to breezy releases. I did some poking around and found: http://torrent.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/release/ dvd
Good luck!
This would surely help in these early days, when everything you need can be downloaded at one time, via bittorrent.
Unlikely. Ask them to provide a signed receipt, or other evidence of acceptance of goods. Even if your credit card company doesn't believe you, they can't make you pay, or pay interest, while the item is in dispute. Of course the seller can sue you, but the onus is upon them to prove you received the goods...
Well I saw one at the Hartfield airport, so I guess there are three...
Risky? That's why credit cards have a thing called "charge backs". It's not like you're stuffing hundreds of pounds (literally) of coins into that thing...
Exactly. Where am I going to be that I need this? Even 3rd class airline seats are coming with power slots for laptops, etc. Everywhere else I have computed in the past 10 years hasn't been very far from an electric outlet...
The funny thing about the government's actions in this case is that it seems that they are essentially admitting to breaking the law by claiming state secrecy.
Yes, you and all other leechers like you avail yourselves to countless government services on a daily basis, all the time decrying whatever taxes you do or don't pay.
You do receive fire, police, military protection. Your McDonald's analogy sucks--you can't compare services to real goods. A better analogy would be insurance. But then you probably only think you should pay premiums once you have a claim, and then probably only what you feel like paying, if anything at all.
If you want us to believe that you don't have to pay your fair share to society, then stop taking what society pays for. I'll even grant you those services you can't avoid receiving. But otherwise, for a year, stay off our streets and sidewalks, stay out of our schools and government-funded universities and hospitals (i.e. all of them), stay off our internet, phone network, don't watch public television, or any television, or use electricity for that matter, don't receive or send mail, don't purchase goods or services from those who've availed themselves of such, don't use US currency. If you can refrain from using these and all other avoidable services and goods the government pays/enables/provides for, for one year, then I will support your having your taxes repaid with interest, for that year.
We'll throw in a year's worth of fire, police and defense services as an apology.