>The music people just want you to buy their stuff over and over and over.
It's always bothered me that music is treated as intellectual property on one hand, and CD's are treated as complete products on the other. Which is it? If the music truly is IP then the medium it comes on is irrelevant. I've got a ton of old vinyl, music that's bought and paid for, so if I want that music on CD why do I have to pay full price again? You should be able to take your record or tape to the shop for a discount or exchange, since you've already paid for the actual music. A small charge to cover remastering and materials would be reasonable, but it's criminal making you pay the full price every time a new format comes out.
Do they really think censoring that sort of information on the web will stop anyone who wants to build a bomb?
Americans can only block sites in America. I'm sure there are plenty of sites in the Middle East or wherever that will suffice. I'm not sure terrorists wait until they reach their destination before finding bomb making instructions.
I agree. We must protect the fundamental human right to prevent companies scouring our personal records to see if we have committed any offences!
Fixed that for you.
British judges like this are typically upper class, and live in a different world to the one that we know. Even a TV is considered vulgar, and most upper class types wouldn't have one in the mansion, never mind a computer.
It's hard to imagine for most of us, but people with that kind of privilege are completely distanced from the outside world. They're so cosseted they need to have their morning paper ironed before they can read it. Learn about the internet? Why? It's a mere trifle to keep the peasants quiet!
"Our goal is to make a picture for everyone -- life-long fans and the uninitiated"
Whenever I read something like that, I know it's going to be crap. It's a dead giveaway that their only motivation is to catch as wide a demographic as possible. "For everyone" can be translated into "not too techie, not too geeky, not too clever, plenty of explosions, hero gets the girl" etc. In other words, an average movie for average people. Surely by now they know that any Trek production has to be written for the fans in order to be successful.
It always amazes me why more companies don't include Linux as an option. Surely it would bring price points down, and they could even produce their own distros. Dellinux anyone?
Even as I write this, three words are forming in my mind which probably answer my own question; "Microsoft", "strong-arm", and "tactics".
Yeah mine too. I actually have the firmware mentioned in the "known issues" section, R1A081, but I thought what the hell and installed it anyway. Works pretty well.
My father-in-law, a university lecturer, once asked me what the acronym SPAM stood for. Imagine his disappointment when I told him that it's not an acronym, it comes from the classic Monty Python sketch. He went off muttering something about the entire computer industry being run by 16 year olds.
I know this is sacrilege, but the PC's running Mac OS in Office Space always bugged the hell out of me. Especially that scene where Mac OS shuts down to a C:\ prompt, makes me grit my teeth every time.
A lot of people buy iPods with the sole purpose of carrying their existing CD collections around, and have no intention of ever using iTunes, or otherwise downloading music. They just see their iPods as an upgrade from a CD Walkman, where they used to have to carry around five or six discs. I don't think it's a DRM issue for the ordinary man in the street - most people won't even know what that is - rather it's to do with the fact that people for the most part want to stick with what they know, which is buying CD's.
I've been doing this for a few years, and I've been getting less and less work as time goes on. Firstly, everybody seems to have a 14 year old nephew these days who is capable of fixing home computer issues, which results in less calls. Secondly, everything is USB now, so you no longer get calls from people wanting scanners or printers installed. Getting connected to the internet is also pretty easy these days. Probably the way to go is to specialise in spyware cleaning, and learn some Mac skills if you need to so you can help the switchers.
Unfortunately, as the computer industry makes everything easier for the end user, it means less work for people like us.
Not that I know too much about this, but my first thought using logic was SMP = Symmetric Multi Processor, and clearly 3 dies is not symmetrical. I imagine it's not worth the hassle to develop such an architecture, probably four dies is simply easier to implement.
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It was only a comical observation, don't throw your dummy. At least it's better than making SOMETHING out of NOTHING.
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I got the sense that they're competing companies. I had this crazy thought, with tongue firmly in cheek - could it possibly be:
Black Mesa - Me Sa = MS
Aperture - Ap = Apple
The sentry turrets were clearly designed by Jonathan Ive..
>The music people just want you to buy their stuff over and over and over.
It's always bothered me that music is treated as intellectual property on one hand, and CD's are treated as complete products on the other. Which is it? If the music truly is IP then the medium it comes on is irrelevant. I've got a ton of old vinyl, music that's bought and paid for, so if I want that music on CD why do I have to pay full price again? You should be able to take your record or tape to the shop for a discount or exchange, since you've already paid for the actual music. A small charge to cover remastering and materials would be reasonable, but it's criminal making you pay the full price every time a new format comes out.
I'm guessing it has something about modifications in there. I suppose PC World could argue that changing the operating system is a modification.
I agree. We must protect the fundamental human right to prevent companies scouring our personal records to see if we have committed any offences! Fixed that for you.
British judges like this are typically upper class, and live in a different world to the one that we know. Even a TV is considered vulgar, and most upper class types wouldn't have one in the mansion, never mind a computer.
It's hard to imagine for most of us, but people with that kind of privilege are completely distanced from the outside world. They're so cosseted they need to have their morning paper ironed before they can read it. Learn about the internet? Why? It's a mere trifle to keep the peasants quiet!
"Our goal is to make a picture for everyone -- life-long fans and the uninitiated"
Whenever I read something like that, I know it's going to be crap. It's a dead giveaway that their only motivation is to catch as wide a demographic as possible. "For everyone" can be translated into "not too techie, not too geeky, not too clever, plenty of explosions, hero gets the girl" etc. In other words, an average movie for average people. Surely by now they know that any Trek production has to be written for the fans in order to be successful.
I don't know about now, but you used to be able to request Linux restore disks from IBM. I got one for my old A21m.
In some ways that was the most realistic part of the movie, the aliens clearly didn't know how to set the password on their access point.
Then you stand up, and I'll swing a five pound bar of steel at you.
It always amazes me why more companies don't include Linux as an option. Surely it would bring price points down, and they could even produce their own distros. Dellinux anyone?
Even as I write this, three words are forming in my mind which probably answer my own question; "Microsoft", "strong-arm", and "tactics".
Yeah mine too. I actually have the firmware mentioned in the "known issues" section, R1A081, but I thought what the hell and installed it anyway. Works pretty well.
My father-in-law, a university lecturer, once asked me what the acronym SPAM stood for. Imagine his disappointment when I told him that it's not an acronym, it comes from the classic Monty Python sketch. He went off muttering something about the entire computer industry being run by 16 year olds.
I know this is sacrilege, but the PC's running Mac OS in Office Space always bugged the hell out of me. Especially that scene where Mac OS shuts down to a C:\ prompt, makes me grit my teeth every time.
I can't believe the mothership had an open access point. Stupid aliens.
If it's just for keeping a record of bills and other junk, why even bother with OCR? As long as you can read the results, just snap away.
As far as I know, you need a dialup modem for your upstream so that won't help.
A lot of people buy iPods with the sole purpose of carrying their existing CD collections around, and have no intention of ever using iTunes, or otherwise downloading music. They just see their iPods as an upgrade from a CD Walkman, where they used to have to carry around five or six discs. I don't think it's a DRM issue for the ordinary man in the street - most people won't even know what that is - rather it's to do with the fact that people for the most part want to stick with what they know, which is buying CD's.
You're just jealous because you can't code in HYML.
I've been doing this for a few years, and I've been getting less and less work as time goes on. Firstly, everybody seems to have a 14 year old nephew these days who is capable of fixing home computer issues, which results in less calls. Secondly, everything is USB now, so you no longer get calls from people wanting scanners or printers installed. Getting connected to the internet is also pretty easy these days. Probably the way to go is to specialise in spyware cleaning, and learn some Mac skills if you need to so you can help the switchers.
Unfortunately, as the computer industry makes everything easier for the end user, it means less work for people like us.
>The other looks like they licensed "Cover Flow"
I've been waiting ages for CoverFlow RC1 to be released, finally downloaded it yesterday. Now what do you know, two come along at once...
Not that I know too much about this, but my first thought using logic was SMP = Symmetric Multi Processor, and clearly 3 dies is not symmetrical. I imagine it's not worth the hassle to develop such an architecture, probably four dies is simply easier to implement.
Blue light? This is possibly a stupid question, but isn't sunlight yellow?