Bullshit. It's simply a matter of preference. I don't need 15 windows open at once. I have high speed and I can only read one page at a time. I personally think tabs are retarded and disable them immediately.
Same goes for "desktops". I might have four or five programs open to work on a website. I can see each program in the task bar. I don't need to try and keep track of four separate "desktops" I do one thing at a time.
I think that's still high though. I just bought a color laser hp printer for $149 Canadian. The toners only do 750 pages, but it's not too bad to get a refurb toner from ebay that'll do 5000.
I have two mediaPortal boxes that work wonderfully with a Hauppage tuner as a remote control. I don't have satelite, so I haven't tried out the dvr capabilities, but MediaPortal has been working flawlessly on two different machines for years now. One of them is a bit slow, but it works fine on xp and a p3 1 ghz cpu with 500 megs of ram. I set it up with vnc and just access a network drive for content.
I got out of the business for the same reasons. Users are basically idiots and most shouldn't have computers. That and I'm too lazy to learn Vista or seven now. It was fun for about a decade... people just drive me nuts now. Even had a guy tell me he couldn't get his email. What program do you use?... wait for it.... notepad... AHHHHHHH!!!!!
Sometimes we miss the obvious. When my chair was so far back that I couldn't reach the keyboard anymore my wife said, "Umm, why don't you go get some reading glasses?" That was two years ago now.
They really do work well although they can be a pain getting used to if you've been spoiled and could go without glasses for 40 some odd years.
Unfortunately, you're screwed. Why do you think other nations are 'harmonizing' their copyright laws with the US?
Good luck with that. Every time our Canadian government tries that shit, we either kick their asses out or we storm their headquarters and threaten to kick their asses out.
They've tried the Canadian DMCA 3 times now only to be defeated every time. Canadians will not put up with that crap. Once you tell Grandma that she can't copy a song to her ipod, there's no hope for the gov't.
This faulty American DMCA legislation is probably the reason we now have minority governments. That's not a bad thing. They have to work together or get booted out.
America is on life support anyway. Not as important as she thinks, and soon to die from her own overindulgence and greed.
Bring on the trolls mutherfucker. Mod me into oblivion... I could care less.
I thought the joke was:
God says to Adam, "I have good news and bad news"
Adam says, "What's the good news?"
God says, "You get a brain and a penis."
"What's the bad news?"
"You only get enough blood to use one at a time!"
Thank-you, I'll be here all week... tip your waitress..
Sorry I don't have mod points. This is the only correct post in this whole thread:
All of this is absurd. There is no "undue" harm or burden on Dell or HP here. I speak as someone that worked in dell's testing lab for more than a year creating these images. It would be TRIVIAL for dell to make new images and put them into production. None of the hardware is changing, only the software and only the office suite at that. There is no known case where removing Office (or just word from the office install) would cause any issues. Other than not being able to open a number of document types, but then, that's the whole point. It might take them a week or two, but they have 60 days or more, so it's not like it's going to hurt them. Further, they make new images regularly for new systems, it's not like they don't do this shit every day.
It's the same as the Napster fiasco. They're buying the name in hopes of turning it into a legit operation. Umm.. good luck with that.
Other people have pointed out that the summary tells us that their stock rose before they actually announced intentions to buy it. That's obviously stock manipulation from my point of view. Get the price high, dump the shit stock, then let the company go broke.
I think we're going about this wrong. When they find a spammer, they should take him to the center of a large city, the televise his beating worldwide.
Nothing has worked... we're not shooting enough spammers to scare the rest of them. The ultimate problem though is with society. How do we deal with a people so dumb as to actually believe penis enlargement pills work? We all know that if there was no profit, there would be no spam. My sig says it all.
When I buy a DVD, I want to be able to create a backup that I use and store the DVD in safe keeping. If they don't want me to do this, distribute your films on a more robust media. This ruling is down right horrible for consumers.
I want to copy it on to my mediacenter pc so I can play it on any pc in my house. I also can't stand those ads at the beginning of the dvd. I don't need to see their damn warning for the thousandth time either.
Exactly. Here in Alberta we did have little guy with big balls. Say what you will about the man, but Ralph Klein basically told the Americans to go fuck themselves. America wanted special deals in the tar sands but one of Ralph's last duties in office was to sign a huge trade deal with China, much to the chagrin of Bush & co. America was not going to screw us over anymore.
Does America wanna start something over oil? I bet the Chinese would step in. Ralph was way smarter than he looked... I miss the little shit. Stelmach is a wimp.
I wonder if it has anything to do with that fact that the baby boomers don't buy music anymore and the generations behind them simply don't buy as much.
I had to buy the original Rush albums 3 times because I wore them out. I bought two copies of Dark side of the moon, one album and one cd. I think that was a very dumb profit model, but that's how the music industry lived for years. The boomers were teh generation that bought their collections on album, then cassette, then finally cd. That will never happen again.
Now we have a much smaller number of people in the "music buying age" who buy digital and never have to worry about it again.
It's not rocket science. Less people, the shit doesn't break anymore and you can find most of it for free on the internet. I think the music industry is finished. They may stop the last one... but they'll never stop the first 2 points.
Maybe true for someone crooning folk music on a beat-up guitar, but in all honesty, any studio setup that costs under $250,000 is going to produce crap.
I hate to reply to AC but you sir, to put it nicely, are fucking retarded.
I have seen an album, produced in a studio with less than 25k of equipment, 10 years ago, that can rival anything these RIAA guys can make. To use an ancient phrase: "It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools".
The engineer that produced that album was a genius. He used what he had and did a masterful job. To say that a good production can only be made by a record label is laughable.
I can also attest to this. When I signed up for my cert, I got an automated phone call to the phone number that I have registered with the certificate. They verified that I am who I said I was and that my domain was my domain.
I do agree with most of the posters here though, there's no reason that they can't change that ignorant warning to something a bit more user friendly. Users obviously don't care what it says.
But the overriding thing here is that the internet is world wide. We've seen how American laws are enforced in Sweden. We've seen people break through the great firewall of China. The nature of the web itself makes it impossible for anyone to completely block content. My isp gets $35 a month from a thousand people and has minimal expenses. There is no way any company could force him to traffic shape when he is sitting on a small goldmine now. Also in Alberta, we're using a $300 million dollar fiber network built and paid for by the province.
This whole argument is a red herring. If the media companies could have screwed us into their television model, we would have it already. They're screwed and dying and are too stupid to fall over. The Internet is the great equalizer. They lost the battle years ago.
Where have you been? Harper has a minority government, and will for the rest of his days. Nobody likes him anymore. With the liberals in the east and ontario, the ndp in ontario and bc, bloc heads in quebec, tories on the prairies.. it could be a very long time before Canada sees another dictator, I mean majority government. I could give a shit if we have elections every two years as long as this shit dies like it has every other time they've tried to enact it.
Canadian DRM or DMCA will be the end of whatever government enacts it.
They busted this 17 year old in Kitchener, Ontario a few years back. Everyone though he was selling dope. He was buying new cars, bringing in big screen tv's and no-one really left the house. Turns out the kid was selling penis enlargement pills for $50. a bottle. He was getting his sisters to fill the bottle with pills that cost him $5 a bottle. They showed it on the evening news! The girls are filling the bottles right on tv. The kid was brilliant... almost.. he was giving money back guarantees!!
I can see this exec in California, bought 3 bottles. They didn't work. Would YOU call your credit card company to tell them that you bought fake penis enlargement pills? hehe The kids did get busted for abusing the internet connection because he had his own email server farm running off a cable modem.
I just about pissed myself I was laughing so hard!
My take on this is that people will be moral by choice... not because of legislation.
A conscience will stop you from doing something "wrong", and the fear of repercussions may do the same thing.
If the law says that prostitutes are illegal, does the mere fact of the law stop you from going to one? Or does your moral conscience?
Also there are lots of laws that have no moral basis. There's no moral reason for me to wear a seatbelt. My obligation to my family has changed my perception far more than any threat of a $75.00 fine.
12 And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, 13 and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all. 15 See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.
You can't legislate morality... or intelligence.
Psalm 111:10 (New King James Version)
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;
A good understanding have all those who do His commandments.
His praise endures forever.
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Same goes for "desktops". I might have four or five programs open to work on a website. I can see each program in the task bar. I don't need to try and keep track of four separate "desktops" I do one thing at a time.
I think that's still high though. I just bought a color laser hp printer for $149 Canadian. The toners only do 750 pages, but it's not too bad to get a refurb toner from ebay that'll do 5000.
I have two mediaPortal boxes that work wonderfully with a Hauppage tuner as a remote control. I don't have satelite, so I haven't tried out the dvr capabilities, but MediaPortal has been working flawlessly on two different machines for years now. One of them is a bit slow, but it works fine on xp and a p3 1 ghz cpu with 500 megs of ram. I set it up with vnc and just access a network drive for content.
/ now they can all just get off my lawn
They really do work well although they can be a pain getting used to if you've been spoiled and could go without glasses for 40 some odd years.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Piratebay has all the Disney movies in two different torrents I think. Pretty sad when you can download a copy faster than you can rip and encode it.
Unfortunately, you're screwed. Why do you think other nations are 'harmonizing' their copyright laws with the US?
Good luck with that. Every time our Canadian government tries that shit, we either kick their asses out or we storm their headquarters and threaten to kick their asses out.
They've tried the Canadian DMCA 3 times now only to be defeated every time. Canadians will not put up with that crap. Once you tell Grandma that she can't copy a song to her ipod, there's no hope for the gov't.
This faulty American DMCA legislation is probably the reason we now have minority governments. That's not a bad thing. They have to work together or get booted out.
America is on life support anyway. Not as important as she thinks, and soon to die from her own overindulgence and greed.
Bring on the trolls mutherfucker. Mod me into oblivion... I could care less.
God says to Adam, "I have good news and bad news"
Adam says, "What's the good news?"
God says, "You get a brain and a penis."
"What's the bad news?"
"You only get enough blood to use one at a time!"
Thank-you, I'll be here all week... tip your waitress..
All of this is absurd. There is no "undue" harm or burden on Dell or HP here. I speak as someone that worked in dell's testing lab for more than a year creating these images. It would be TRIVIAL for dell to make new images and put them into production. None of the hardware is changing, only the software and only the office suite at that. There is no known case where removing Office (or just word from the office install) would cause any issues. Other than not being able to open a number of document types, but then, that's the whole point. It might take them a week or two, but they have 60 days or more, so it's not like it's going to hurt them. Further, they make new images regularly for new systems, it's not like they don't do this shit every day.
Other people have pointed out that the summary tells us that their stock rose before they actually announced intentions to buy it. That's obviously stock manipulation from my point of view. Get the price high, dump the shit stock, then let the company go broke.
Nothing has worked... we're not shooting enough spammers to scare the rest of them. The ultimate problem though is with society. How do we deal with a people so dumb as to actually believe penis enlargement pills work? We all know that if there was no profit, there would be no spam. My sig says it all.
When I buy a DVD, I want to be able to create a backup that I use and store the DVD in safe keeping. If they don't want me to do this, distribute your films on a more robust media. This ruling is down right horrible for consumers.
I want to copy it on to my mediacenter pc so I can play it on any pc in my house. I also can't stand those ads at the beginning of the dvd. I don't need to see their damn warning for the thousandth time either.
Does America wanna start something over oil? I bet the Chinese would step in. Ralph was way smarter than he looked... I miss the little shit. Stelmach is a wimp.
I had to buy the original Rush albums 3 times because I wore them out. I bought two copies of Dark side of the moon, one album and one cd. I think that was a very dumb profit model, but that's how the music industry lived for years. The boomers were teh generation that bought their collections on album, then cassette, then finally cd. That will never happen again.
Now we have a much smaller number of people in the "music buying age" who buy digital and never have to worry about it again.
It's not rocket science. Less people, the shit doesn't break anymore and you can find most of it for free on the internet. I think the music industry is finished. They may stop the last one... but they'll never stop the first 2 points.
Maybe true for someone crooning folk music on a beat-up guitar, but in all honesty, any studio setup that costs under $250,000 is going to produce crap.
I hate to reply to AC but you sir, to put it nicely, are fucking retarded. I have seen an album, produced in a studio with less than 25k of equipment, 10 years ago, that can rival anything these RIAA guys can make. To use an ancient phrase: "It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools".
The engineer that produced that album was a genius. He used what he had and did a masterful job. To say that a good production can only be made by a record label is laughable.
I do agree with most of the posters here though, there's no reason that they can't change that ignorant warning to something a bit more user friendly. Users obviously don't care what it says.
This whole argument is a red herring. If the media companies could have screwed us into their television model, we would have it already. They're screwed and dying and are too stupid to fall over. The Internet is the great equalizer. They lost the battle years ago.
Canadian DRM or DMCA will be the end of whatever government enacts it.
I can see this exec in California, bought 3 bottles. They didn't work. Would YOU call your credit card company to tell them that you bought fake penis enlargement pills? hehe The kids did get busted for abusing the internet connection because he had his own email server farm running off a cable modem.
I just about pissed myself I was laughing so hard!
Silly me, I thought they were talking about the Nixon Watergate tapes... I was wondering... how the hell did they find them?
If the law says that prostitutes are illegal, does the mere fact of the law stop you from going to one? Or does your moral conscience?
Also there are lots of laws that have no moral basis. There's no moral reason for me to wear a seatbelt. My obligation to my family has changed my perception far more than any threat of a $75.00 fine.
12 And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, 13 and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves. 14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all. 15 See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies. 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.
You can't legislate morality... or intelligence.
Psalm 111:10 (New King James Version)
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever.
Watch "Wag the Dog" for that whole new perspective.
Why would you want ads? Or phishing sites?