Ok, now I understand... so all you would have to do in these couple scenarios are emulate a bios, emulate a chip, emulate a hardware configuration, and voila.
Seems people would be better off sticking with PearPC.
I don't understand this comment... and I have seen it several times now. How is Apple going to use the DRM features of a chip I do not have to prevent me from installing OSX on my P4? Am I missing something? This makes absolutely no sense to me.
I expect 9 out of 10 scientists are secretly using unethical practices, and I welcome it. I'm sure that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of technological, biological, etc... advances that would be impossible without. All those other pussy-footing scientists should learn from their examples.
"It's a little more difficult to measure just what having VOIP, for instance, gives us. VOIP doesn't really reduce the cost of living, and it really doesn't improve the quality of living compared to POTS. Perhaps it does slightly reduce the costs, if VOIP is less expensive than POTS, because that means VOIP users spend less of their "time" paying for communications."
Do you not see how to perfectly contradicted yourself? First you say that VOIP does not reduce cost of living, then you say it does. Make up your mind!
Your "personal assessment" is obviously flawed. VOIP cost significantly less then your average local phone carrier. When I had Vonage, I was paying $25 per month for what BellSouth cost me nearly $65. That's at least $420 per year savings, and that's not even including the long distance charges that were saved (unlimited LD with Vonage to US and Canada on $25 plan at the time).
At least do a little research before making such claims.
This is most certainly a dupe, but not of articles, of ideas. Someone has already constructed a case made of fans based around a small form factor itx board. The case was a perfect cube that was 4 fans on each side.
"I drive a Ford F150, and only manage to go thru 10-15 gal a week"
You obviously don't do anything other than go to work and go home... you don't get out much do you?
I live in Fort Lauderdale, FL, maybe 3 miles from where I work, and I easily go through 40+ gallons per week (I drive an 01 Dodge Ram). Most of the time I even work from home.
Disney could do it because they actually hold the copyrights. The UK is not just extending the copyright term by the request of the holder, they are extending the copyright term for all pop music in general. Obviously this is due to some pocket-lining from the music industry in the UK. I say the actual copyright holders must submit applications to have their individual copyrights extended. This would be "fair" as you coined it, in line with Disney. But neither do I reside in the UK, nor do I care much about the Beatles, so don't take my word for it.
Sony will still do everything it can to prevent player-x in the US from playing Japanese games. If someone writes code to circumvent the region coding, I guarantee they will have Sony lawyers breathin' down their neck.
"Lastly, I hate that firefox doesn't obey normal unix copy and paste rules. There's no option to right click in a text field and delete everything in it without highlighting the text that is already there. In opera you just click in the box and type ctrl+U. This is particularly annoying when I'm messing with phpmyadmin."
Simple (in Windows, dunno about Linux). Click in the box, press ctrl+a, press delete. Sure, it's one more step (3 instead of 2), but the functionality exists.
GoDaddy reps could not understand the status on a.org domain that one of my customers was trying to transfer to their service, and after pointing them to all the documentation at pir.org, they still adamently claimed that they could not transfer a domain that had status "Client Update Prohibited". After explaining to maybe 10 different GoDaddy reps that the only status affecting transfers was "Client Transfer Prohibited" (which had long before been removed), with my customer conferenced in on the calls, my customer decided that the extra $10 per year to stay with me was worth the horrible stupidity that he was avoiding by NOT switching to GoDaddy.
Your analogy to the automotive industry does not apply. First off, Ford and Chevy did not make the radios installed in their vehicles, and they also offer different options to be preinstalled (as most manufacturers do). Kia and Hyundai are not competing against car stereos, they are competing against the entire car, thus your analogy might apply to the entire OS, but definitely not just Media Player.
Now if you had said that KLH or some other generic electronics brand was being forced out of the automotive audio market because Ford and Chevy were making vehicles incompatible with KLH radios, you may be on to something.
You've got a point, but I think you are being too literal in the sense. Of course it does not mean that the act in question is now illegal, but it does make a precedence for future lawsuits regarding the same act.
In other words, if someone in France does the same thing Tena did, it will be easier for the company that is suing to win, citing that "in Tegam vs. Tena, the courts ruled in favor of Tegam and imposed a suspended fine of 5,000 euros against Tena". Because of this, it will now most likely take a law to undo the damage that has been done by that ruling.
It depends on what type of "marketers" you are worried about. When was the last time you got a traffic ticket? Did you notice that within 3 days you already had tons of mail from lawyers that specialize in traffic violations?
The information is already open to marketers, just not the ones who will be sending you irrelevant information.
I also do tech support work on the side for friends, family, and friends of friends/family. Family will always be free (not including, of course, the cost of replacement hardware).
Friends/friends of family are on the barter system. If they have nothing of interest to me, when they ask what I charge, I ask them, "What is my time worth to you?" Amazingly, most of them always overpay.
There are a few that will give me the same each time (which roughly averages out to about $40/hr), but usually for something that took me half an hour to fix I leave with no less than $75-$100. I even have one "customer" that gives me $100 just to sit down in front of his computer every few days and make sure everything is ok (ie, no spyware, no viruses... etc). Usually this only consists of checking scan-logs, with the occasional manual removal of a virus or particularly stubborn spyware, but 9 outta 10 visits, I'm there no longer than 10-15 minutes.
I've had a few that were pretty cheap, but they soon found out that $20 for 2 hours of work puts you at the end of a long waiting list the next time you need service.
Lastly, I have one special word for you. Cash. I won't accept checks, and of course I don't run around with a credit card processor. I'll usually warn new "customers" before hand so that the awkward check-refusal does not occur. Cash is tax-free (what Uncle Sam doesn't know can't hurt my wallet). I suppose I could bill their credit cards with my PayPal account (me hears shuddering in the distance from the direction of/.), but I'm not about to give PayPal a percentage of my hard earned money (bet I had you worried!).
Soon, very soon. Comcast has begun blocking 25 down here in Florida, and it will spread to the rest of their service areas. I work at a webhost's tech support dept, and I can tell you from experience that 9 outta 10 ISP block 25 now. Off the top of my head, I cannot think of one that does not.
And yes, SBC does in fact block and will not remove that block for normal residential accounts.
I have yet to find an ISP that blocks 587 though, and most non-ISP mail servers are beginning to listen on 587 for SMTP connections.
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Here... PSP for about $60 worth of crap...
http://www.psp-hacks.com/free-psp.php
Ok, now I understand... so all you would have to do in these couple scenarios are emulate a bios, emulate a chip, emulate a hardware configuration, and voila.
Seems people would be better off sticking with PearPC.
I don't understand this comment... and I have seen it several times now. How is Apple going to use the DRM features of a chip I do not have to prevent me from installing OSX on my P4? Am I missing something? This makes absolutely no sense to me.
Why would they have to make a seperate keyboard for Dvorak? The keys are blank... just change your kb settings in your OS.
I expect 9 out of 10 scientists are secretly using unethical practices, and I welcome it. I'm sure that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of technological, biological, etc... advances that would be impossible without. All those other pussy-footing scientists should learn from their examples.
Oh my... are those pasties?!
Did anyone else read this as International Federation of the Pornographic Industry?
"It's a little more difficult to measure just what having VOIP, for instance, gives us. VOIP doesn't really reduce the cost of living, and it really doesn't improve the quality of living compared to POTS. Perhaps it does slightly reduce the costs, if VOIP is less expensive than POTS, because that means VOIP users spend less of their "time" paying for communications."
Do you not see how to perfectly contradicted yourself? First you say that VOIP does not reduce cost of living, then you say it does. Make up your mind!
Your "personal assessment" is obviously flawed. VOIP cost significantly less then your average local phone carrier. When I had Vonage, I was paying $25 per month for what BellSouth cost me nearly $65. That's at least $420 per year savings, and that's not even including the long distance charges that were saved (unlimited LD with Vonage to US and Canada on $25 plan at the time).
At least do a little research before making such claims.
This is most certainly a dupe, but not of articles, of ideas. Someone has already constructed a case made of fans based around a small form factor itx board. The case was a perfect cube that was 4 fans on each side.
This is neither new nor news.
"I drive a Ford F150, and only manage to go thru 10-15 gal a week"
You obviously don't do anything other than go to work and go home... you don't get out much do you?
I live in Fort Lauderdale, FL, maybe 3 miles from where I work, and I easily go through 40+ gallons per week (I drive an 01 Dodge Ram). Most of the time I even work from home.
Who said anything about patents?
Disney could do it because they actually hold the copyrights. The UK is not just extending the copyright term by the request of the holder, they are extending the copyright term for all pop music in general. Obviously this is due to some pocket-lining from the music industry in the UK. I say the actual copyright holders must submit applications to have their individual copyrights extended. This would be "fair" as you coined it, in line with Disney. But neither do I reside in the UK, nor do I care much about the Beatles, so don't take my word for it.
It would be alot funnier if you replaced "Group:" with "Bob Saget:"...
Sony will still do everything it can to prevent player-x in the US from playing Japanese games. If someone writes code to circumvent the region coding, I guarantee they will have Sony lawyers breathin' down their neck.
$1mn - 1 million dollars worth of nuts?
"Lastly, I hate that firefox doesn't obey normal unix copy and paste rules. There's no option to right click in a text field and delete everything in it without highlighting the text that is already there. In opera you just click in the box and type ctrl+U. This is particularly annoying when I'm messing with phpmyadmin."
Simple (in Windows, dunno about Linux). Click in the box, press ctrl+a, press delete. Sure, it's one more step (3 instead of 2), but the functionality exists.
GoDaddy reps could not understand the status on a .org domain that one of my customers was trying to transfer to their service, and after pointing them to all the documentation at pir.org, they still adamently claimed that they could not transfer a domain that had status "Client Update Prohibited". After explaining to maybe 10 different GoDaddy reps that the only status affecting transfers was "Client Transfer Prohibited" (which had long before been removed), with my customer conferenced in on the calls, my customer decided that the extra $10 per year to stay with me was worth the horrible stupidity that he was avoiding by NOT switching to GoDaddy.
Your analogy to the automotive industry does not apply. First off, Ford and Chevy did not make the radios installed in their vehicles, and they also offer different options to be preinstalled (as most manufacturers do). Kia and Hyundai are not competing against car stereos, they are competing against the entire car, thus your analogy might apply to the entire OS, but definitely not just Media Player. Now if you had said that KLH or some other generic electronics brand was being forced out of the automotive audio market because Ford and Chevy were making vehicles incompatible with KLH radios, you may be on to something.
You've got a point, but I think you are being too literal in the sense. Of course it does not mean that the act in question is now illegal, but it does make a precedence for future lawsuits regarding the same act.
In other words, if someone in France does the same thing Tena did, it will be easier for the company that is suing to win, citing that "in Tegam vs. Tena, the courts ruled in favor of Tegam and imposed a suspended fine of 5,000 euros against Tena". Because of this, it will now most likely take a law to undo the damage that has been done by that ruling.
...to destroy the vile scum transmitting spam to them, I for one will welcome our new spam-hating alien overlords.
Hmmm, I don't know why, but for some reason, Howard the Duck comes to mind when picturing the alien overlords' arrival...
It depends on what type of "marketers" you are worried about. When was the last time you got a traffic ticket? Did you notice that within 3 days you already had tons of mail from lawyers that specialize in traffic violations?
The information is already open to marketers, just not the ones who will be sending you irrelevant information.
I also do tech support work on the side for friends, family, and friends of friends/family. Family will always be free (not including, of course, the cost of replacement hardware). Friends/friends of family are on the barter system. If they have nothing of interest to me, when they ask what I charge, I ask them, "What is my time worth to you?" Amazingly, most of them always overpay.
/.), but I'm not about to give PayPal a percentage of my hard earned money (bet I had you worried!).
There are a few that will give me the same each time (which roughly averages out to about $40/hr), but usually for something that took me half an hour to fix I leave with no less than $75-$100. I even have one "customer" that gives me $100 just to sit down in front of his computer every few days and make sure everything is ok (ie, no spyware, no viruses... etc). Usually this only consists of checking scan-logs, with the occasional manual removal of a virus or particularly stubborn spyware, but 9 outta 10 visits, I'm there no longer than 10-15 minutes.
I've had a few that were pretty cheap, but they soon found out that $20 for 2 hours of work puts you at the end of a long waiting list the next time you need service.
Lastly, I have one special word for you. Cash. I won't accept checks, and of course I don't run around with a credit card processor. I'll usually warn new "customers" before hand so that the awkward check-refusal does not occur. Cash is tax-free (what Uncle Sam doesn't know can't hurt my wallet). I suppose I could bill their credit cards with my PayPal account (me hears shuddering in the distance from the direction of
It's not like they're equiped with some sort of rfid so govmnt can track wherever you are.
You missed a key word that should heve ended that statement... "yet"
It's easy to automatically skip the second "to" that you inserted without a second though and continue on as if nothing ever happened :)
Soon, very soon. Comcast has begun blocking 25 down here in Florida, and it will spread to the rest of their service areas. I work at a webhost's tech support dept, and I can tell you from experience that 9 outta 10 ISP block 25 now. Off the top of my head, I cannot think of one that does not.
And yes, SBC does in fact block and will not remove that block for normal residential accounts.
I have yet to find an ISP that blocks 587 though, and most non-ISP mail servers are beginning to listen on 587 for SMTP connections.