If you are like me and not a big fan of real guns, get a CO2 powered.357 look-alike. I used it once to scare the hell out of some young guys that kept driving up to the townhouses in my court and throwing stuff, etc. It makes a decent noise and the pellets tore at the plastic parts of the rag-top on their beatup SUV. Anyway, they thought it was real and it put an end to their activities for the evening.
...in search of a problem. I don't know what will replace pen & paper but it will be a huge paradigm shift and not just an electroninc similie of writing.
I get genuinely confused about what is legal and illegal in terms of downloading copyrighted music. The NYT in this article starts out with what appears to be an overly broad statement:
DOWNLOADING music from the Internet is not illegal.
But that at least seems to be based on what is involved in the lawsuits and not purely on the law or so this next quote seems to say:
But the fine print of those lawsuits makes clear that fans are being sued not for downloading but for unauthorized distribution: leaving music in a shared folder for other peer-to-peer users to take.
I understand that the lawsuits have focused on people who have uploaded music and the conventional wisdom is that if you only download you won't get sued.
So, I am still confused and the article only confused me further
I don't beleive that Americans are so easily manipulated that showing Michael Moore's documentary on the "eve of the election" will have any effect on the election results. Michael Moore, whether his movie is accurate or not (I think not) has become consumed with his own inflated sense of self-importance. He can show his film every night for 30 days before the election. I am one republican who doesn't mind. The more shrill the noise, the sooner people are turned off. And Moore is the King of Shrill as of late.
Nintendo has been in the gaming business since 1889
I believe this is when they came out with their first two hits,Horse and Buggy Kong and Prairie Invaders.
On a more serious note, this is well worth the time to read. It is fairly long but well written (other than a few tiny errors as above) and extremely informative. The site is well laid out and easy to follow. The history lesson alone is worth the time spent.
The Samsung handset also features an FM radio, 64-voice polyphonic ringtone support, a 240 x 320 display and TV output - again, preparing the way for the day when mobiles incorporate Microsoft Portable Media Center-style functionality.
Most of the time I am just trying to maintain a clear enough signal to complete a call.
How much wiggle room is there in the pricing of the songs? Forty-nine cents a song has made me a customer of Real's for now ( I haven't tried any.99 cent services - don't want to pay that much). I know it's unlikely that music can be sold that inexpensively but we know it doesn't have to be.99 since WalMart is doing.88. So, I am wondering what RealNetworks' pricing strategy will be. While I understand you cannot differentiate on price alone, the rest isn't going to matter if the price is.99. I just won't buy at that price (yes, obviously others will, but I maintain that multiples more will at a sustained, lower price).
I'm a Republican but even I can't listen to Rush. I really can't listen to any show that starts out as "left" or "right" because I already know what I am going to hear and how much fun is that? I have been listening to some stations on XM radio such as the Ask! network looking for something a bit more interesting. I like Rollye James - a libertarian. Well, at least it is, for me, a different flavor of bias and a hell of a lot more entertaining since it's not all shrill and reactionary. If this new section ends up being like Rush or Franken, then it will just be noise with nobody listening. I really hope that people take some time to not only put forth their point of view, but honestly consider the other point of view as a real possibility. The more I do that, the more interesting life becomes.
What's next, disallow people who write using a minority language, because Gmail can't attach meaningful ads to those messages?
What a specious argument! There is quite a big difference between how Google wants to use their service and having their services/storage essentially hijacked for other purposes. It is a mail system. It they want a blogger than they will come out with one. And, yes, probably put ads on it. Or did you want to pay for it yourself?
I don't really care much about blogs, especially the notion of a a gigabyte of it...anyway, the Gmail lite project page is a good read. The author is amiable and does a good job explaining why he was interested in and did the project.
I wonder how they are coordinating the use of all of those computers? The article doesn't say that they will be exclusively for this project and, if they are not, then that is some task to have them all online and not otherwise busy. They must have some damned serious storage vaults as well if they are generating 15 Petabytes a year of data, which doesn't include the output from processing. Still, it must be something to have all of the "horsepower" at your command.
About 45 billion dollars a year are spent on gift cards. Five to 10% are never cashed in. So, we are talking about 1/2 billion dollars of "additional profit." I've gotta believe that WalMart sells a sh*tload of gift cards and even at at redemption rate of 95% is coming out ahead millions a year. So, while it's no fun to pay out on the stolen cards twice, there is ample money in the bucket from the never-to-be-redeemed to cover the losses.
I worked for one of the top three cell phone companies from April until August of this year (I resigned on Aug 12th). You would not believe this industry from the inside. First they shoot themselves in the foot by selling phones for a penny that costs them several hundred dollars. Then, they try to get it back by selling all sorts of "extras." The billing errors alone probably make up some of the lost profit. I did not see a single billing error on any of my screens that were in favor of a customer. My own bill for my two boys were off by $150/month for three months in the carriers favor. The pressure to get new "activations" is enormous. You are directed to say almost anything to get a new activation and then they deal with the lies on the backend. If you choose not to lie, as I did, they make your life almost unbearable. I did make a good income and I could have continued. But, I got so that I didn't like myself much anymore.
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This silliness ends when the Patent Office puts together a group specifically to deal with technology patents. It's important enough to warrant it's own dedicated group of industry experts.
I don't know about bonus points but I wouldn't want the pressure of trying to catch this thing while half the world watches:
The civilian pilots have replicated the retrieval without fumbles in dozens of practice runs, but are terrified of flubbing it live on NASA television with a worldwide feed.
Hell, I'll be watching! How often do you get to see a helicopter try to catch space puke?
Only 300 hours? When do you folks watch all of this tv that you are recording? I have a hard time watching a few hours a week without the help of even a VCR. I love tv, don't get me wrong. I just have no idea when I would be able to watch 300 or more hours of tv. And, I am assuming that the PVR's are sucking in more each day. I would get panicky wondering when I could catch up . . ..
This is not new, not that it changes the argument but I was taping songs off the radio in the 60's when I was 10 years old. I would agree that it's easier now and the quality is better but copying songs is an "old" practice and I just don't know that it has the effect that the labels believe. When I got older and got a job, I began paying for my music as I believe most folks do.
This is a typical and specious argument that can't be argued against without looking and sounding shrill. It is an argument of convenience at best. I would counter with the fact that BMI's rate of growth has been steady going back nearly a decade and growth that smooth was probably not affected (much) by piracy or there should have been a bump in there somewhere.
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The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire.
Damn, we must look stupid to gov't officials.
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DOWNLOADING music from the Internet is not illegal.
But that at least seems to be based on what is involved in the lawsuits and not purely on the law or so this next quote seems to say:
But the fine print of those lawsuits makes clear that fans are being sued not for downloading but for unauthorized distribution: leaving music in a shared folder for other peer-to-peer users to take.
I understand that the lawsuits have focused on people who have uploaded music and the conventional wisdom is that if you only download you won't get sued.
So, I am still confused and the article only confused me further
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Nintendo has been in the gaming business since 1889
I believe this is when they came out with their first two hits, Horse and Buggy Kong and Prairie Invaders.
On a more serious note, this is well worth the time to read. It is fairly long but well written (other than a few tiny errors as above) and extremely informative. The site is well laid out and easy to follow. The history lesson alone is worth the time spent.
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Most of the time I am just trying to maintain a clear enough signal to complete a call.
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What a specious argument! There is quite a big difference between how Google wants to use their service and having their services/storage essentially hijacked for other purposes. It is a mail system. It they want a blogger than they will come out with one. And, yes, probably put ads on it. Or did you want to pay for it yourself?
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Alienware Computer to run it on: $4,200
Losing the last vestiges of any proof of ever being in the sunlight: Priceless
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The civilian pilots have replicated the retrieval without fumbles in dozens of practice runs, but are terrified of flubbing it live on NASA television with a worldwide feed.
Hell, I'll be watching! How often do you get to see a helicopter try to catch space puke?
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