Maybe it is a good idea for a big corporation (with enough lawyers and cash) to break a patent (even a credible one) and letting it go to court, just to prove to the judge that there are so much rediculous patents that the USPTO and any patent it honours cannot be taken seriously anymore?
If they host servers with illegal content, then this is no news !
The slightly off-topic part: More and more online music stores appear on the net, which I consider a good thing. I for one would love to go there and buy a song if I hear one I like.
Problem is: If I would like to buy a random song from the top 40, changes are that with my linux machine, I can't buy it. Or maybe I can... but I can't download it, burn it or whatever. Because I don't have WMP ! I'm not downloading it illegally. If they don't let me buy and download a simple mp3 (or ogg or whatever) with GOOD quality (192kbps), they won't have me as a customer.
The terrible thing is that people that DO have WMP don't even know they are helping the big music companies in restricting everything their customers are allowed to do.
And for complete albums... , CD's are still better value. You get some media with it (CD), a case, a booklet AND the music is of better quality ! And if it is copy protected and does not adhere to the CD audio standards... they lose my business as well. I wish more people would make a statement like that. Then it might make a difference.
If you think music/video is to expensive... don't buy it, but don't copy it either. If you are not willing to pay, you probably don't need it bad enough. Buy buying restricted media, or stealing it, you just are part of the problem, making it worse for everyone.
They've been spending years allready with these quantum theories, en plans to make quantum computers... Millions and millions of dollars (or euro's, or whatever) are spent allready...
And in 3 years we'll have a small beginning..
All this... just to find out the answer is 42 ????
Well... looks like good times are coming for Xerox...
Or what about that little phone with cam in your pocket? That IS personal property... They can't check that.
There is always a way for people to do wrong if they really want to. Life is not a firewall... You can't just treat everybody as evil. There is a very dangerous trend going on in corporations and politics. Sure you can invest a lot of money and time and resources in preventing and catching wrong-doers. But when you start invading the 'good' people's privacy and freedom... you are going to far. A non-disclosure agreement is logical, but if your boss clearly doesn't trust his/her people, your boss can't expect any respect or trust from them. That is a nasty working environment.
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Hmmmm that sounds interesting.
Maybe it is a good idea for a big corporation (with enough lawyers and cash) to break a patent (even a credible one) and letting it go to court, just to prove to the judge that there are so much rediculous patents that the USPTO and any patent it honours cannot be taken seriously anymore?
"Is anyone else annoyed that their is no real Windows "updater" for iTunes"
Hey... stop complaining !! For Linux there isn't even an installer !!!!
828 feet for 1082 books... so they measure them lying down, not standing up, like you will encounter books most of the time.
It has been days since they launched a new service ;-) I was starting to get worried.
If they host servers with illegal content, then this is no news !
The slightly off-topic part: More and more online music stores appear on the net, which I consider a good thing. I for one would love to go there and buy a song if I hear one I like.
Problem is: If I would like to buy a random song from the top 40, changes are that with my linux machine, I can't buy it. Or maybe I can... but I can't download it, burn it or whatever. Because I don't have WMP ! I'm not downloading it illegally. If they don't let me buy and download a simple mp3 (or ogg or whatever) with GOOD quality (192kbps), they won't have me as a customer.
The terrible thing is that people that DO have WMP don't even know they are helping the big music companies in restricting everything their customers are allowed to do.
And for complete albums... , CD's are still better value. You get some media with it (CD), a case, a booklet AND the music is of better quality ! And if it is copy protected and does not adhere to the CD audio standards... they lose my business as well. I wish more people would make a statement like that. Then it might make a difference.
If you think music/video is to expensive... don't buy it, but don't copy it either. If you are not willing to pay, you probably don't need it bad enough. Buy buying restricted media, or stealing it, you just are part of the problem, making it worse for everyone.
Easy to get around this...
:-) And if you really want to... just buy the damn thing !
Just don't use Windows
Will it run on MacOS X86??
They've been spending years allready with these quantum theories, en plans to make quantum computers... Millions and millions of dollars (or euro's, or whatever) are spent allready...
And in 3 years we'll have a small beginning..
All this... just to find out the answer is 42 ????
"The U.S. software industry lost 16 percent of its jobs from March 2001 to March 2004"
;-)
Not surprising if it took more than a year to calculate that.
Terrorists will NEVER find a way to communicate that cannot be read/heard by others....
suckers...
In europe they're trying to get this same thing going.
People are far to easy about this, camera's in the street, etc etc etc... Not in just the US, but in Europe as well.
Why only US cities? Sure there are some interesting cities in the US. But how about Paris, Rome, Rotterdam, Tokyo etc etc ?
"It seems that the patriot act is being expanded rather than scaled back after a vote late Tuesday by the Senate Intelligence committee."
This seems like a contradiction to me...
I stand corrected.
Yeah... that could be even worse !
Why not just leave it at being entertainment.
Making it a science takes all the fun away.
"FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers he is unable yet to place a price tag on the Sentinel project."
:-)
Well... the research allready cost more than a 100 million
How about a 64-bit flash and shockwave plugin for browsers like firefox compiled on a 64-bit system?
Well... looks like good times are coming for Xerox...
Or what about that little phone with cam in your pocket? That IS personal property... They can't check that.
There is always a way for people to do wrong if they really want to.
Life is not a firewall... You can't just treat everybody as evil.
There is a very dangerous trend going on in corporations and politics. Sure you can invest a lot of money and time and resources in preventing and catching wrong-doers. But when you start invading the 'good' people's privacy and freedom... you are going to far.
A non-disclosure agreement is logical, but if
your boss clearly doesn't trust his/her people, your boss can't expect any respect or trust from them. That is a nasty working environment.
Aha.. You guessed right, I'm not :-)
Not a big beatles fan either. Just heard about it on tv a while ago.
Scouse??? What's that?
Yeah I did know :-)
:-)
Well.. it was kinda old. So hopefully the children got a brand new home. Maybe a shiny new yellow submarine or something... kids love adventures
Love love me doe
I act like a ho
You'll pay me some mo
so pleeeaaaheaaheaheaaaaasssee
Give me doe !!
'strawberry fields forever'
:-)
well.. another 50 years feels like forever to me
Maybe Apple would like to use a nice IBM chip :-)
The transition from PowerPC to Intel
Ehm... Intel could make PowerPC chips... you are assuming they are going to another architecture.
The rumors never mention x86(_64). Just the people interpreting the rumors are yelling it.