Belgium forbids the locking of phones. No need to unlock them if they are ever going to be sold in Belgium as they will be unlocked already.
Probably they will price them so high, which will make them 'loose' the Belgian market, but make a point as to how good a deal all other countries are getting.
Apple is not interested in selling to customers, they want to sell to the phone operators and the phone operators are falling over them selves so they can sell a few more minutes to people who do not need them.
For instance, what if you cannot buy the songs in question in the format you want?
Then you are out of luck. It is their decision whether or not they want to sell it to you or not. The license (copyright in this case) lies with them to decide who gets access to it, not by you. All you can do is accept or decline their license.
is not to download. Put your money where your mouth is and do not listen to it. Whatever you call it, it is forbidden by law, so stop doing it. If you do not agree with their policy, do do not be a hypocrite and still use their product.
You would not like it if they would compromise your GPL license, so do not compromise theirs.
What then needs to happen is that the RIAA is awarded 70 gazillion dollars. Then the rightfull owners can claim that money from the RIAA and at the same time tell the original old lady she does not need to pay.
That would be the way I would do it as well. Advathage is that you can give more time at moments there are lesser people. You can even link it to a customer card, so people who come more often get more bandwith and/or more time.
I would expect this to be standard. Just a code and a timelimit connected to it.
On the map you can see how many people have pledged and colors are on how many people do this. These colors and numbers mean absolutely nothing. At least it should be compared to the amount of people living in a country. If 10.000.000 people do a download in the USofA, this will mean less then the same in Belgium, where it will mean that each and every person has pledged to download it.
Even better would be to have it linked to internet connections, people who are actually able to download it, number of computers or anything similar.
Just start flying people around without weapons. See who gets searched. The people who run several flights without getting searched are ideal for your next attack.
Her you asume that each and every person has its how box cutter. All you need is one person to pass with a box of cutters. He can even be on a completely unrelated flight a few hours or even longer earlier.
This might increase the change of one person being cought, but decreases the chance of the other 20 getting caught.
Now imagine that this is how it was done in the real attack. This would mean that even if we had the current kind of security we have now, we would not have been able to avoid the attack.
However there IS a huge difference before and after 9/11 and that is not the security at the airport. It is the fact that we are now post-9/11. Only an idiot would now pull a knife in an airplane. The only possible way to get anything done is to blow up yourself and hope that the plane goes down as well with you.
The chances of that not working are so great that it would be easier to blow up yourself waiting in line before the checkpoint. After all it is not so much body count as it is terror that they would want. A big bodycount has a bigger impact obviously.
I am realy thinking hard what I can do on XP that I can't do on Win95. Really hard and I can not come up with anything specific. I do a bit of surfing, some emailing, some excel and I type letters. That is about it. That is what I did with 3.1. That is what I did with all other systems.
The difference is that machines became faster and programs became fatter. I used to work with Claris Works and that was 2 floppies.
I will gladly use 95 for what I am doing, but please let it be the first version, without the IE.
Unless you use your PC as a game machine, it is about doing tasks, and I am sure that many of the taks you do now where done then as well.
In Hasselt, Belgium public transport IS free. With all the money the government is spending and the extra money they make on the higher oil prices, they should go all the way in all of Belgium.
The thing is that they would just give money to those who are already willing to pay for it and most who are willing to stand in traffic jams will still do so. I think it is not so much a question of price as it is about wanting to sit in your own car.
Hell, I am guilty as well. I will be cheaper by train in about the same time and yet I can not be bothered myself.
People have been fired for not doing what they were supposed to do. People can get fired by solving crosswords all day and do nothing else.
There often however is an unfair difference between surfing Playboy and reading the Playboy magazine during the office hours. One is easier to detect and prove then the other. It will be used often as an excuse to fire people, because prove is so much easier to get.
At least In Belgium you need a valid reason before you fire somebody without having to pay weeks or months salary, so they will need this proof. People drinking coffee and having cigarette breaks all the time are much less likely to get fired on the spot.
It has to be said that many companies in Belgium will do the firing of people in several steps. Vocal warning, 2 or thre written warnings, firing the person.
I have made an envelope with aluminum foil with duct tape on the two side of the alu-foil. That way I can always say I use it to protect the thing against damage. The alu-foil I explain as that it is against water, if they ask.
Indeed. Compare that to the USofA where they are very clear that you are not welcome and that they will do anything to make you feel unwelcome. They also will force other countries to do the same.
And that card, is that the side of a table, or the size of 250.000 football fields? As I have no frame of reference, I have no idea if I must be impressed or not.
I am willing to be a volunteer. I have jet lag every Monday morning.
During the week I go to sleep at around 01:00 and wake up at around 07:30. During the weekend this is around 04:00 and 11:30. I am sure many people have such a "jet lag".
Remember when we said we did great things, but it was because we stood on the shoulders of giants? IP takes away those giants, so we have nothing to stand on anymore.
While IP is great for somebody or something in the short term, it harms everybody in the long term, including the people who want it so badly.
There should be a way to both have advantage for the 'owner' in the short term and advantage of everybody in the long term.
The best way is to have it 'short term'. 70+ or 100+ years is not short term. 5 or 10 years is short term.
Companies claim they need that long term, because they need to research so much. Well DUH! That is because you must re-invent the wheel over and over again. What would you save if you didn't have to do all the research yourself? What if somebody else already had done it and you can simply use it.
See how you shoot yourself in the foot by these ridiculous long IP times?
I require my phone [...] to keep in touch with my business.
If your business can not do without you for a day, you are doing it wrong. Seriously. See that you have a backup. Delegeate. Whatever. As Charles De Gaulle once said, "The cemetaries are full of irreplaceable people"
Also you apparently are more interested in making money then in the people you are making the money for. Check your priorities.
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Just filter out all the binaries and do HTML while you are at it.
Belgium forbids the locking of phones. No need to unlock them if they are ever going to be sold in Belgium as they will be unlocked already.
Probably they will price them so high, which will make them 'loose' the Belgian market, but make a point as to how good a deal all other countries are getting.
Apple is not interested in selling to customers, they want to sell to the phone operators and the phone operators are falling over them selves so they can sell a few more minutes to people who do not need them.
is not to download. Put your money where your mouth is and do not listen to it.
Whatever you call it, it is forbidden by law, so stop doing it. If you do not agree with their policy, do do not be a hypocrite and still use their product.
You would not like it if they would compromise your GPL license, so do not compromise theirs.
What then needs to happen is that the RIAA is awarded 70 gazillion dollars. Then the rightfull owners can claim that money from the RIAA and at the same time tell the original old lady she does not need to pay.
That would be the way I would do it as well. Advathage is that you can give more time at moments there are lesser people. You can even link it to a customer card, so people who come more often get more bandwith and/or more time.
I would expect this to be standard. Just a code and a timelimit connected to it.
On the map you can see how many people have pledged and colors are on how many people do this. These colors and numbers mean absolutely nothing. At least it should be compared to the amount of people living in a country. If 10.000.000 people do a download in the USofA, this will mean less then the same in Belgium, where it will mean that each and every person has pledged to download it.
Even better would be to have it linked to internet connections, people who are actually able to download it, number of computers or anything similar.
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_HARLIE_Was_One
I read it in Dutch where the name is 'De G.O.D. computer'.
I hope they never turn it into a film, as I have seen how they raped other stories as an excuse to let things explode.
So drivers is a problem of the OS? Why did you go to Linux?
With me all worked and I had no problem with drivers, just like you now probably not have them with Linux, while others do have those problems.
This might increase the change of one person being cought, but decreases the chance of the other 20 getting caught.
Now imagine that this is how it was done in the real attack. This would mean that even if we had the current kind of security we have now, we would not have been able to avoid the attack.
However there IS a huge difference before and after 9/11 and that is not the security at the airport. It is the fact that we are now post-9/11. Only an idiot would now pull a knife in an airplane. The only possible way to get anything done is to blow up yourself and hope that the plane goes down as well with you.
The chances of that not working are so great that it would be easier to blow up yourself waiting in line before the checkpoint. After all it is not so much body count as it is terror that they would want. A big bodycount has a bigger impact obviously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanneke_Pis
There are other statues like that. And this is not even in the privacy of your garden, but in public places.
I am realy thinking hard what I can do on XP that I can't do on Win95. Really hard and I can not come up with anything specific.
I do a bit of surfing, some emailing, some excel and I type letters. That is about it. That is what I did with 3.1. That is what I did with all other systems.
The difference is that machines became faster and programs became fatter. I used to work with Claris Works and that was 2 floppies.
I will gladly use 95 for what I am doing, but please let it be the first version, without the IE.
Unless you use your PC as a game machine, it is about doing tasks, and I am sure that many of the taks you do now where done then as well.
In Hasselt, Belgium public transport IS free. With all the money the government is spending and the extra money they make on the higher oil prices, they should go all the way in all of Belgium.
The thing is that they would just give money to those who are already willing to pay for it and most who are willing to stand in traffic jams will still do so. I think it is not so much a question of price as it is about wanting to sit in your own car.
Hell, I am guilty as well. I will be cheaper by train in about the same time and yet I can not be bothered myself.
People have been fired for not doing what they were supposed to do. People can get fired by solving crosswords all day and do nothing else.
There often however is an unfair difference between surfing Playboy and reading the Playboy magazine during the office hours. One is easier to detect and prove then the other. It will be used often as an excuse to fire people, because prove is so much easier to get.
At least In Belgium you need a valid reason before you fire somebody without having to pay weeks or months salary, so they will need this proof. People drinking coffee and having cigarette breaks all the time are much less likely to get fired on the spot.
It has to be said that many companies in Belgium will do the firing of people in several steps. Vocal warning, 2 or thre written warnings, firing the person.
Not only from one to the other, but back again as well.
Then it will be a real challange.
I have made an envelope with aluminum foil with duct tape on the two side of the alu-foil. That way I can always say I use it to protect the thing against damage. The alu-foil I explain as that it is against water, if they ask.
Pretty robust
Indeed. Compare that to the USofA where they are very clear that you are not welcome and that they will do anything to make you feel unwelcome. They also will force other countries to do the same.
Free market? This will be heavily patentented so that any gain will be lost in the nice way of scre-I mean-doing business.
In other words: The only thing to fear is fear itself.
... so be afraid, be very afraid.
That is now being followed by
Could one not sue Monsanto for tress passing onto your land by proxy of the seeds?
And that card, is that the side of a table, or the size of 250.000 football fields? As I have no frame of reference, I have no idea if I must be impressed or not.
I am willing to be a volunteer. I have jet lag every Monday morning.
During the week I go to sleep at around 01:00 and wake up at around 07:30. During the weekend this is around 04:00 and 11:30. I am sure many people have such a "jet lag".
Bandwidth
Remember when we said we did great things, but it was because we stood on the shoulders of giants? IP takes away those giants, so we have nothing to stand on anymore.
While IP is great for somebody or something in the short term, it harms everybody in the long term, including the people who want it so badly.
There should be a way to both have advantage for the 'owner' in the short term and advantage of everybody in the long term.
The best way is to have it 'short term'. 70+ or 100+ years is not short term. 5 or 10 years is short term.
Companies claim they need that long term, because they need to research so much. Well DUH! That is because you must re-invent the wheel over and over again. What would you save if you didn't have to do all the research yourself? What if somebody else already had done it and you can simply use it.
See how you shoot yourself in the foot by these ridiculous long IP times?
As Charles De Gaulle once said, "The cemetaries are full of irreplaceable people"
Also you apparently are more interested in making money then in the people you are making the money for. Check your priorities.