The fix is easy, really. Offer up a set of channels that are free, open to all radios, with commercial support. Maybe 15 or 20 so of the "standard fair" that you get over the air in most major markets. That should be able to offset a lot of the cost of Sirius, and then, offer additional packages for people who want to subscribe to commercial free music. But, don't charge $13/mo for it. I'm sorry, I have two deactivated radios sitting at home because thats just too much. Maybe charge $3 or $4 for MUSIC. I don't want Howard Stern, I don't want Opie and Anthony, I just want music.
Thats what you get sending your kids to a Christian school. You didn't mind the fact that chapter 2 of their science text book, heading "Early Humans" only had one line "God did it" and cited, "The Bible" as its source? Or the picture of a cave man riding a dinosaur on the front of the textbook?
If they're teaching that sort of crap in public schools then the whole schoolboard should be drawn and quartered. No excuse for that type of crap.
They cover how to add an OS X server to Active Directory for single sign on in Microsoft classes? I guess I would have figured that since apple developed the stuff they'd teach me about it. Stupid me.
For one, most decent/new/fairly new/not ancient network cards are auto sensing so crossover cables are pointless.
And for two, do you have an understanding of over complicated? It wouldn't work. Windows patches would shut the whole network down, not to mention the fact that any time a machine is imaged/worked on/replaced all the routing info would need to be carried over and the network interfaces kept separate. Thats a recipe for disaster.
Its like the Mac OS X Server class I walked out of. They told us we were going to build a server which could provide network services to a Mac connected to firewire. And, if we had time, we'd get to Windows networking. Talk about having your priorities bass ackward.
Maybe this video editor should look themselves in the mirror. Installing a brand new version of an OS this early in the game on anything that helps bring money or business in the door is assanine at best and insane at worst. We won't be upgrading to 10.5 on any machines here until 10.5.1 and won't be piloting it with our users until 10.5.2. Rolling it out in-mass won't occur until at least 10.5.3 or 10.5.4 we're talking at least 18 months here...
You certainly have to do more from the console than in windows, and compile a lot more than you do in windows. Unless you never want to install anything or change hardware devices. So, no, not like that at all. The OP just wasn't funny, no way to shoehorn a joke in there. Even throwing in a Microsoft Bob reference just can't save it.
Maybe those freedom-lovers should try to come across as normal people, unlike your post, where you come across as a twit-brained gun-owning idiot. The world would be safer if people like you were wiped from it -- the next best thing is making sure you never own a gun... I'm a little worried about you owning a dull spoon to be honest.
Try explaining to people about how the government is taking rights, and WHY that effects them. The whole DRM backlash (DRM effects people because they cant load their music on their iPod) has actually been making progress. So, yeah. It shouldn't be that hard to start a similar movement to get people interested in the government. Just don't call the meeting to order shooting a gun up in the air.
This is a contract. You signed it when the installer went to your house and connected you. You got to read through it before hand, and if you didn't thats your fault.
And as for the other stuff, you can't just go to court and say "um my cellphone wasn't working and I don't want to pay". They don't have to provide you with dick. My friend had DirecTV and his dish blew over. He called them and they told him that it was his responsibility to fix it. He said tuff and just quit paying the bill. Sure enough 3 months later he owes them $300 in late fees, disconnect fees, etc. They took him to court over that. DirecTV didn't provide him with any service in that timeframe. Its HIS problem, not theirs. Same if my cellphone goes south. Its my problem, not theirs. If they want to allow me, I can suspend my service until I get a replacement phone, but they don't even have to allow that.
And if you don't provide the cable company access to your house they can (and WILL) disconnect your service. You're right to refuse them entry. Their right to turn your cable-stealing ass off. Believe me, I used to work for the cable company. I used catch leaking signal all the time (indication of a grade-A hack job of installing splitters, etc). Most cable companies are required to remedy that immediatly by the FAA because they broadcast in the same band that aircraft radios do. If you say "No" then they pull the plug on the spot, no questions asked. On top of that, you're still billed the same as if you had service, until you decide to let us come in. And that may be weeks away when we can schedule the service call at that point. We had people say all the time "you'll hear from my lawyer". (Non payment disconnects were even better, people would let their dogs out on us while we were up on the pole. Nothing beats calling the humane society while your leaning back on the pole and then watching their pitbull get crated up and taken because they decided to set him lose on the cable guy...) Guess what, we never did. Because its in the contract!
The cops have less rights than other private citizens. If you don't even know that, then I think I'm wasting my time writing this argument.
Yes, and whats your point? We both know those aren't legal copies of the movie. If you're going to break the law anyway, why pay for it in the first place?
You remind me of my friend, who rents movies from Netflix, to rip them. Whats the point? Both things are illegal. His arguement is "Well, I'm paying for it so I can do whatever I want." Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. You might as well go all out, and just download the movies.
Stop trying to justify it saying "but I bought this DVD, that I had no way of knowing was illegal, for a few cents on the street corner!!"
Yes, but most people are lazy. I have triple play deal, internet, cable and phone each for $30 a month ($90 total). When my first year is up, it goes to $150 total. Second year, it jumps to almost $210 total. Was very hard to get those numbers from the cable company. You can bet that I won't be paying the $49.95/mo they want for phone service that 2nd year or the $69.95 they want for digital cable that 3rd year. FTA TV and some of the cheaper VoIP services sound pretty sweet.
I think we can be certain that as China moves closer to the 2008 Olympics the punishment for movie piracy will be a little bit stiffer than it is here in the states...
I'm pretty sure if you had an agreement with a user through a signed contract to maintain the quality of their internet connection, and you're stance was by blocking their daughters use of bittorrent they made the connection faster for everyone else in the house, then you'd be on fine legal ground. Thats what Comcast is doing, in their eyes.
Killing someone is illegal. Blocking (or spoofing) your BitTorrent traffic to speed up the network for others (their argument, not mine) is not illegal... in fact, it hasn't been tested in court.
ISPs block things all the time (try getting the Windows SMB port through most ISPs or port 80, 25, etc...) and not a single time has the court struck that down. Seems the precedent shows that its fine for an ISP to do things like this. Some even redirect web traffic to their own proxy servers, again, without legal issue.
Now if you had a business class connection, which guaranteed things like port availability for hosting servers, then you might have something to sue over.
In all seriousness, I am pretty sure in their terms of service it states that they can adjust their network for the performance for everyone. Do you have any idea how open that is? Good luck pinning down any sort of lawsuit against that. Its all in their Terms of Service. Does no one read these things? I know I read each and every word of mine for my cable company (I must give them access to their cable box 24/7/365 if they ask) and my cellphone (They're not required to actually provide me with any services during a billing period and I still need to pay).
So you're why all my bittorrent downloads are so slow, wasting upload with something you can get for free anyway! Why don't you try seeding something of worth =)
Yeah, using a program that may or may not be legal is certainly the same as sharing a movie to users who do not have a license to be downloading it from you. Exactly the same thing. Except for the fact that one way, you're facilitating others to break the law too. I'll leave the exercise up to you to figure out which is which.
And I don't believe you own the movies... for the record.
Until Ma Bell was broken up the only place that sold phones was the phone company. You could rent phones from them or buy them outright. It was illegal to connect a non-phone company provided phone.
It wasnt until the 80s when you could buy and connect your own phone. So hopefully cellphones progress quicker, I don't want 60 years of being tied to the phone company to get my phone.
Huh? Its one watt. If its getting light for 4 hours then it would be 4 watt/hours. You need to go back to 7th grade and brush up on units of measure it would seem.
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Eh, thanks for using the word "Obamacare" to remind me to skip your post.
Not if you're a weather forecaster who made a prediction of clear skys; or perhaps a taxi driver well known for overcharging patrons...
The fix is easy, really. Offer up a set of channels that are free, open to all radios, with commercial support. Maybe 15 or 20 so of the "standard fair" that you get over the air in most major markets. That should be able to offset a lot of the cost of Sirius, and then, offer additional packages for people who want to subscribe to commercial free music. But, don't charge $13/mo for it. I'm sorry, I have two deactivated radios sitting at home because thats just too much. Maybe charge $3 or $4 for MUSIC. I don't want Howard Stern, I don't want Opie and Anthony, I just want music.
Thats what you get sending your kids to a Christian school. You didn't mind the fact that chapter 2 of their science text book, heading "Early Humans" only had one line "God did it" and cited, "The Bible" as its source? Or the picture of a cave man riding a dinosaur on the front of the textbook?
If they're teaching that sort of crap in public schools then the whole schoolboard should be drawn and quartered. No excuse for that type of crap.
They cover how to add an OS X server to Active Directory for single sign on in Microsoft classes? I guess I would have figured that since apple developed the stuff they'd teach me about it. Stupid me.
For one, most decent/new/fairly new/not ancient network cards are auto sensing so crossover cables are pointless.
And for two, do you have an understanding of over complicated? It wouldn't work. Windows patches would shut the whole network down, not to mention the fact that any time a machine is imaged/worked on/replaced all the routing info would need to be carried over and the network interfaces kept separate. Thats a recipe for disaster.
Its like the Mac OS X Server class I walked out of. They told us we were going to build a server which could provide network services to a Mac connected to firewire. And, if we had time, we'd get to Windows networking. Talk about having your priorities bass ackward.
So, you're voting republican?
Thanks, that's great.
No Bush isn't trying to rush it. Hes just said that he communicates directly with God.
That makes me feel much safer.
Maybe this video editor should look themselves in the mirror. Installing a brand new version of an OS this early in the game on anything that helps bring money or business in the door is assanine at best and insane at worst. We won't be upgrading to 10.5 on any machines here until 10.5.1 and won't be piloting it with our users until 10.5.2. Rolling it out in-mass won't occur until at least 10.5.3 or 10.5.4 we're talking at least 18 months here...
You certainly have to do more from the console than in windows, and compile a lot more than you do in windows. Unless you never want to install anything or change hardware devices. So, no, not like that at all. The OP just wasn't funny, no way to shoehorn a joke in there. Even throwing in a Microsoft Bob reference just can't save it.
Maybe those freedom-lovers should try to come across as normal people, unlike your post, where you come across as a twit-brained gun-owning idiot. The world would be safer if people like you were wiped from it -- the next best thing is making sure you never own a gun... I'm a little worried about you owning a dull spoon to be honest.
Try explaining to people about how the government is taking rights, and WHY that effects them. The whole DRM backlash (DRM effects people because they cant load their music on their iPod) has actually been making progress. So, yeah. It shouldn't be that hard to start a similar movement to get people interested in the government. Just don't call the meeting to order shooting a gun up in the air.
Cedar Rapids, IA has two cable providers, Mediacom and ImOn. ImOn has the best rates, and services (check out http://www.imon.net/
This is a contract. You signed it when the installer went to your house and connected you. You got to read through it before hand, and if you didn't thats your fault.
And as for the other stuff, you can't just go to court and say "um my cellphone wasn't working and I don't want to pay". They don't have to provide you with dick. My friend had DirecTV and his dish blew over. He called them and they told him that it was his responsibility to fix it. He said tuff and just quit paying the bill. Sure enough 3 months later he owes them $300 in late fees, disconnect fees, etc. They took him to court over that. DirecTV didn't provide him with any service in that timeframe. Its HIS problem, not theirs. Same if my cellphone goes south. Its my problem, not theirs. If they want to allow me, I can suspend my service until I get a replacement phone, but they don't even have to allow that.
And if you don't provide the cable company access to your house they can (and WILL) disconnect your service. You're right to refuse them entry. Their right to turn your cable-stealing ass off. Believe me, I used to work for the cable company. I used catch leaking signal all the time (indication of a grade-A hack job of installing splitters, etc). Most cable companies are required to remedy that immediatly by the FAA because they broadcast in the same band that aircraft radios do. If you say "No" then they pull the plug on the spot, no questions asked. On top of that, you're still billed the same as if you had service, until you decide to let us come in. And that may be weeks away when we can schedule the service call at that point. We had people say all the time "you'll hear from my lawyer". (Non payment disconnects were even better, people would let their dogs out on us while we were up on the pole. Nothing beats calling the humane society while your leaning back on the pole and then watching their pitbull get crated up and taken because they decided to set him lose on the cable guy...) Guess what, we never did. Because its in the contract!
The cops have less rights than other private citizens. If you don't even know that, then I think I'm wasting my time writing this argument.
Yes, and whats your point? We both know those aren't legal copies of the movie. If you're going to break the law anyway, why pay for it in the first place?
You remind me of my friend, who rents movies from Netflix, to rip them. Whats the point? Both things are illegal. His arguement is "Well, I'm paying for it so I can do whatever I want." Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. You might as well go all out, and just download the movies.
Stop trying to justify it saying "but I bought this DVD, that I had no way of knowing was illegal, for a few cents on the street corner!!"
Yes, but most people are lazy. I have triple play deal, internet, cable and phone each for $30 a month ($90 total). When my first year is up, it goes to $150 total. Second year, it jumps to almost $210 total. Was very hard to get those numbers from the cable company. You can bet that I won't be paying the $49.95/mo they want for phone service that 2nd year or the $69.95 they want for digital cable that 3rd year. FTA TV and some of the cheaper VoIP services sound pretty sweet.
I think we can be certain that as China moves closer to the 2008 Olympics the punishment for movie piracy will be a little bit stiffer than it is here in the states...
I'm pretty sure if you had an agreement with a user through a signed contract to maintain the quality of their internet connection, and you're stance was by blocking their daughters use of bittorrent they made the connection faster for everyone else in the house, then you'd be on fine legal ground. Thats what Comcast is doing, in their eyes.
Killing someone is illegal. Blocking (or spoofing) your BitTorrent traffic to speed up the network for others (their argument, not mine) is not illegal... in fact, it hasn't been tested in court.
ISPs block things all the time (try getting the Windows SMB port through most ISPs or port 80, 25, etc...) and not a single time has the court struck that down. Seems the precedent shows that its fine for an ISP to do things like this. Some even redirect web traffic to their own proxy servers, again, without legal issue.
Now if you had a business class connection, which guaranteed things like port availability for hosting servers, then you might have something to sue over.
In all seriousness, I am pretty sure in their terms of service it states that they can adjust their network for the performance for everyone. Do you have any idea how open that is? Good luck pinning down any sort of lawsuit against that. Its all in their Terms of Service. Does no one read these things? I know I read each and every word of mine for my cable company (I must give them access to their cable box 24/7/365 if they ask) and my cellphone (They're not required to actually provide me with any services during a billing period and I still need to pay).
They've got all the bases covered... Trust me.
So you're why all my bittorrent downloads are so slow, wasting upload with something you can get for free anyway! Why don't you try seeding something of worth =)
PS: I kid, I kid.
Yeah, using a program that may or may not be legal is certainly the same as sharing a movie to users who do not have a license to be downloading it from you. Exactly the same thing. Except for the fact that one way, you're facilitating others to break the law too. I'll leave the exercise up to you to figure out which is which. And I don't believe you own the movies... for the record.
They can also, apparently, launch a Southpark reference right over your head.
Install a program called VLC and then you can watch the DVD. Which I highly doubt you really own, anyway.
Until Ma Bell was broken up the only place that sold phones was the phone company. You could rent phones from them or buy them outright. It was illegal to connect a non-phone company provided phone.
It wasnt until the 80s when you could buy and connect your own phone. So hopefully cellphones progress quicker, I don't want 60 years of being tied to the phone company to get my phone.
Huh? Its one watt. If its getting light for 4 hours then it would be 4 watt/hours. You need to go back to 7th grade and brush up on units of measure it would seem.