They can. And they usually do even better than that.
From what I've read, RIAA settlements tend to be about $5000. Even if you use Mark Cuban's Yahoo standard of value, and uploader only needs to serve 100 unique peers per month for 5 months to be liable for that amount.
There are a couple serious problems with this vision.
First, a large portion of the market for a handheld streaming device are people that don't have a desktop that is online 24/7. They have laptops that only get powered up when their owner is sitting in front of them.
Secondly, the locations with the highest density of in-use iPods are places that don't get cellphone service: the subways of major metropolitan areas. A streaming handheld will be of little use to the twentysomething urban commuters who made the iPod such a success.
The sentence about bottles was actualy cut out by the BBC censor because the humor was too black
I have no idea whether this is true, but it certainly sounds apocryphal.
The "BBC Censon" is an agent of the government, the prime minister is the voice of said government. Furthermore, the BBC censor owes his job to the prime minister.
But, for a person who values their data and hardware, the greater risk a catastrophic failure of an inadequate power supply would be disasterous (or at least inconvenient) enough to justify the greater initial investment.
That's one way to look at it. However, for those of us on a tight budget, the real question is, "Is this the most effective use of my $50?"
a more reliable power supply will tend to cost more, mostly on that basis.
While I accept that this is probably true, it's not what I asked. A more reliable power supply may cost more, but is a more expensive power supply necesarily more reliable?
If you don't let me use my first choise passsword, I will write my password on a post it and stick it to my monitor.
I am not the only one who will do this.
If you want to fire me for not buying into your password scheme, fine, but I hope you can show that your password scheme is more valuable to the company than what I do.
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This decision is irrelevant to SkypeOut. Those calls can be tapped once they hit the PSTN.
This advice, while well intentioned, is absolutely useless. You are basically saying, "Just move all of your applications. Only a couple of them will break, although I don't know which ones those will be."
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(Hopefully someone that took some optics (physics) or astronomy)...or high school physics.
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They can. And they usually do even better than that. From what I've read, RIAA settlements tend to be about $5000. Even if you use Mark Cuban's Yahoo standard of value, and uploader only needs to serve 100 unique peers per month for 5 months to be liable for that amount.
There are a couple serious problems with this vision. First, a large portion of the market for a handheld streaming device are people that don't have a desktop that is online 24/7. They have laptops that only get powered up when their owner is sitting in front of them. Secondly, the locations with the highest density of in-use iPods are places that don't get cellphone service: the subways of major metropolitan areas. A streaming handheld will be of little use to the twentysomething urban commuters who made the iPod such a success.
The sentence about bottles was actualy cut out by the BBC censor because the humor was too black I have no idea whether this is true, but it certainly sounds apocryphal. The "BBC Censon" is an agent of the government, the prime minister is the voice of said government. Furthermore, the BBC censor owes his job to the prime minister.
Nobody "deserves" my money. Some lucky people will get my money when I decide to give it to them, not because they deserve it.
Nor are you in San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Midland, El Paso, etc.
Which part of the grandparents post are you refuting? You seem to be in complete agreeance, as far as I can tell.
God I hate that ad.
Do you really think that wanting free shit is a legitimate reason to spam people?
Pardon me for ignoring obvious sarcasm...
"Firebird" the browser has obviously changed it's name.
"Firebird" the database is still called "Firebird."
If Wookies are from Endor...
Step 1: Build gumstick format hardware. Step 2: Eat hardware. Step 3: ??????? Step 4: Profit!
That's one way to look at it. However, for those of us on a tight budget, the real question is, "Is this the most effective use of my $50?"
a more reliable power supply will tend to cost more, mostly on that basis.While I accept that this is probably true, it's not what I asked. A more reliable power supply may cost more, but is a more expensive power supply necesarily more reliable?
Do you have any reason to believe that the power supply that comes with a $40 case is more likely to fail than a more expensive one?
If more expensive power supplies do fail less often, do you have any reason to believe the extra cost is justified by the failure rate difference?
Your statement reads like, "Automobile accidents are the leading cause of death among 18-24 year olds, so buy an expensive car.
If you don't let me use my first choise passsword, I will write my password on a post it and stick it to my monitor.
I am not the only one who will do this.
If you want to fire me for not buying into your password scheme, fine, but I hope you can show that your password scheme is more valuable to the company than what I do.
This decision is irrelevant to SkypeOut. Those calls can be tapped once they hit the PSTN.
Any phone call that ends up on the PSTN can already be tapped. This new regulation would only affect to VOIP to VOIP calls.
The process is soooo much easier than you just described.
- Position the camera (preferably using a tripod) so that the orthoganal line extending from the center of the screen intersects the lens of the camera.
- Zoom in so that the laptop screen fills the picture frame.
- Fold the laptop screen down.
- Take a picture.
- Open the laptop screen back up.
- Set that picture as your desktop background.
- Zoom out.
- Take another picture.
No photo editing required.So, making a player with no screen is doing themselves a disservice, while making a player with a color screen is lunacy.
Monochrome or bust, baby!
And they charge the same for CC transactions.
I don't get it.
Everybody knows games were perfected in 1985; it's a scientific fact! Nice try, but your off by 12 years. GoldenEye didn't come out until 1997.
I don't know. Does Columbia Records do a lot of business through mininova?
Does this mean an iPod has more space than a Nomad, an FM tuner, and is not lame?
This advice, while well intentioned, is absolutely useless. You are basically saying, "Just move all of your applications. Only a couple of them will break, although I don't know which ones those will be."
(Hopefully someone that took some optics (physics) or astronomy) ...or high school physics.
DLP doesn't use compression anymore than cathode ray tubes are uncompressed. It's a display technology.