"Stores will not accept returns, but the company who put out the product usually will."
One option for customers whose service has been revoked is that you can now send in your purchased copy of Half Life 2 to Valve in exchange for a stylish T-shirt.
The front features the HL2 logo; on the back is a larger version of the logo, along with the words "I bought Half Life 2, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
The best way to make sure that this data remains open source is to increase funding to national granting agencies like the National Science Foundation and the NIH.
"As long as you keep your data files somewhat readable you'll be able to go to the equivalent of Kinko's where they'll have every ancient computer available," said Mr. Schwartz, whose company has worked with the Library of Congress on its preservation efforts.
"It'll be like Ye Olde Antique Computer Shoppe," Mr. Schwartz said. "There's going to be a whole industry of people who will have shops of old machines, like the original Mac Plus."
Oh boy, a field day for the/.ers that have been squirreling away all that "obsolete" hardware. Quit running Linux servers on those machines, boys! They'll be too valuable when Kinkos is ready to buy those "antiques"!
The only songs I download anymore are the 1-hit wonders you hear (for free - I know, I know, they were paid for by commercials) on the radio anyway.
If the industry wants to stick with this "one hit song per album" model, and produce albums which aren't worth they money, then I'll just keep downloading the hits.
It takes a lot more work to get even just one "hit" than almost any person is willing to commit to. As the adage goes, if it were really "that easy", everybody would be doing it. People have to make tremendous efforts and sacrifices for those works which you imply are disposable and easy to come by.
When a radio station gets lots of requests to spin a song, that money goes back to the labels, yes, but it also goes back to the artists that recorded the song, and more importantly, back to the songwriter that crafted it, and oftentimes the producer who took care of all the details to get that recording made. They don't get a dime when you download that MP3 from a P2P network.
Every time I've had to deal with ATI's developer relations communication has been top notch. For my bug reports I've always had a reply within 2-3 days and a followup when it's fixed. Having to write an app that demos the bug can be a little bit convenient, but it really speeds up their fixing the bug. And they certainly are speedy fixing those bugs, it's rather impressive:)
Then I guess I need to file a bug report with them if they're so responsive.
To: support@ati.com
From: gotgenes@slashdot.org
Subject: Bug Report - Linux Support Subpar
Dear ATI,
Please do a better job with Linux drivers.
As a scientific research tech, I, for one, totally agree with Bill Gates on this matter! If it wasn't for OSS, I would lose my job!...
Hey, wait a minute... I got hired because of my ability to work with and help create OSS...
Wait, but if I got hired to work with OSS, and OSS is going to make me unemplo--Oh, look, I've gone crosseyed.
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I enjoyed it. I'd never seen that before. Thanks for the laughs.
One option for customers whose service has been revoked is that you can now send in your purchased copy of Half Life 2 to Valve in exchange for a stylish T-shirt.
The front features the HL2 logo; on the back is a larger version of the logo, along with the words "I bought Half Life 2, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Only available while supplies last...
No mentions of Dive Into Python?
Oh, probably, but it deserves redundancy.
These are my sentiments, too. Well said.
You weell die alone! --Triumph
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Oh boy, a field day for the /.ers that have been squirreling away all that "obsolete" hardware. Quit running Linux servers on those machines, boys! They'll be too valuable when Kinkos is ready to buy those "antiques"!
I knew I should've held on to my Apple II...
Well, mind rot makes sure that I don't remember to miss any of those "keepsakes".
[akbar]It's a trap![/akbar]
A: Well, just as soon as we rewrite the Patriot Act to make it legal to tap them...
:-)
To whomever downmoderated my post, RTFA--it is not OT.
So where does this article fit in?
It takes a lot more work to get even just one "hit" than almost any person is willing to commit to. As the adage goes, if it were really "that easy", everybody would be doing it. People have to make tremendous efforts and sacrifices for those works which you imply are disposable and easy to come by.
When a radio station gets lots of requests to spin a song, that money goes back to the labels, yes, but it also goes back to the artists that recorded the song, and more importantly, back to the songwriter that crafted it, and oftentimes the producer who took care of all the details to get that recording made. They don't get a dime when you download that MP3 from a P2P network.
*ba-dum TSHHHHhh!*
Hey, we got a million of 'em!
No respect, I tell ya!
(RIP, Rodney)
"I'm the Gatekeeper. Are you the (Encryption) Keymaster?"
Then I guess I need to file a bug report with them if they're so responsive.
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As a scientific research tech, I, for one, totally agree with Bill Gates on this matter! If it wasn't for OSS, I would lose my job!... Hey, wait a minute... I got hired because of my ability to work with and help create OSS... Wait, but if I got hired to work with OSS, and OSS is going to make me unemplo--Oh, look, I've gone crosseyed.
AHAHAHAHhhahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. ..