Thats just the thing. We all paid for wide-screen (16:9) DVDs and now they're telling us that:
1) The movies aren't actually widescreen 2) We won't replace it with a corrected version
I'm sure as hell not giving them my movie in exchange for $7.10 -- they'll probably rewrap them and sell them as new -- but who knows what crap will be on the list of 325 movies for which I can exchange my bad copy. Its probably a bunch of stuff they couldn't sell anyway. If anything I should get $7.10 and be able to keep as compensation for being ripped off.
I wonder if they will sometime in the future fix the movies, and then try to make us pay for them when we want to exhange the crappy DVDs for the real ones.
AFAIK, you'd have to file a request for exclusion and then sue on your own. After the case is settled, MGM doesn't owe you anything. So if you're hoping to get a fixed copy later on down the road, you might want to do that and talk to your own legal counsel about the issue.
Pipelining is specified in HTTP/1.1, so it has to be at least acknowleged by the server. Of course, the server doesn't have to do anything with the request. So it makes no sense to not implement it in software because you can always fall back on non-pipelined transmissions if the server doesn't feel like doing it.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipe li ning-faq.html
I agree. Something drastic will need to be done voluntarily by us or else nature will do it for us. Of course as you said there is no political will to do anything that will scale back the comfort of the people, especially not the wealthy and upwardly mobile middle class. I'm not old enough to recall Jimmy Carter, but I have heard from people that he lost a few votes when he was frank about US energy policy (turn down the heat, put on a sweater). Its much easier to believe the man who says the western lifestyle is sustainable and that everything will be fine.
People think they deserve to be able to travel wherever they want for whatever reason at any time in any fashion they choose. In a perfect world I would agree with them. Unfortunately, it seems that this sort of attitude is compounding the problem. It seems to me when forced to choose between hedonistic consumerism for a few more decades or scaling back the standards of living so that the most lives are saved, westerners will pick consumerism every time.
While we're on the subject, a good friend of mine said that we really won't have to worry much about problems resulting from global warming because peak oil will come first.
I would much rather my government "waste" millions on studies and programs designed to prevent something that may or may not happen than just use a best case scenario approach and hope for the best.
No, my good sir, the messages. You know, what he wrote.
Yahoo! and he agreed to a contract. Yahoo! would supply the storage medium (in this case hard drives) and he could store his writings on them.
I store files on my university web account. Does the university now own my files? I'm sure you have personal information on a bank's servers. Do they now own that information since its on their hard drives?
At what point do robots get similar rights to humans? If creating an artificial intelligence is tantamount to creating a new life form, then what rights do these life forms get? Those inalienable rights endowed by their Creator?
It seems to me that robots are finite state machines (unlike humans, I think) and should have no more rights than a toaster. Of course, if any of them can solve the Halting Problem, I'd be ready to give them voting rights et al.
I was way ahead of my classes through most of primary and secondary school. I could read at a 2nd or 3rd grade level when I was 4, etc. The first 4 years of school were me being bored off my ass. The next 8 were me not being bored, but still not being challenged enough.
Many people would think that this would be great, not having to try in 12.5 years of school, but it ended up backfiring. Once I got to college and actually was challenged, I had no clue what do to since I had never experienced that in high school. Subsequently, I am struggling through my 3rd year in CS/CEG.
The Supreme Court of the USA decided a long time ago that corporations are people in their own right and are therefore entitled to all other freedoms that regular people enjoy.
We need that to be overturned before anything else.
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Thats just the thing. We all paid for wide-screen (16:9) DVDs and now they're telling us that:
1) The movies aren't actually widescreen
2) We won't replace it with a corrected version
I'm sure as hell not giving them my movie in exchange for $7.10 -- they'll probably rewrap them and sell them as new -- but who knows what crap will be on the list of 325 movies for which I can exchange my bad copy. Its probably a bunch of stuff they couldn't sell anyway. If anything I should get $7.10 and be able to keep as compensation for being ripped off.
I wonder if they will sometime in the future fix the movies, and then try to make us pay for them when we want to exhange the crappy DVDs for the real ones.
AFAIK, you'd have to file a request for exclusion and then sue on your own. After the case is settled, MGM doesn't owe you anything. So if you're hoping to get a fixed copy later on down the road, you might want to do that and talk to your own legal counsel about the issue.
Pipelining is specified in HTTP/1.1, so it has to be at least acknowleged by the server. Of course, the server doesn't have to do anything with the request. So it makes no sense to not implement it in software because you can always fall back on non-pipelined transmissions if the server doesn't feel like doing it.
e li ning-faq.html
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pip
I need sarcasm tags ... help!!!
Yes!!!
I've always wanted to see a Tholian. They had better not screw it up.
I agree. Something drastic will need to be done voluntarily by us or else nature will do it for us. Of course as you said there is no political will to do anything that will scale back the comfort of the people, especially not the wealthy and upwardly mobile middle class. I'm not old enough to recall Jimmy Carter, but I have heard from people that he lost a few votes when he was frank about US energy policy (turn down the heat, put on a sweater). Its much easier to believe the man who says the western lifestyle is sustainable and that everything will be fine.
People think they deserve to be able to travel wherever they want for whatever reason at any time in any fashion they choose. In a perfect world I would agree with them. Unfortunately, it seems that this sort of attitude is compounding the problem. It seems to me when forced to choose between hedonistic consumerism for a few more decades or scaling back the standards of living so that the most lives are saved, westerners will pick consumerism every time.
While we're on the subject, a good friend of mine said that we really won't have to worry much about problems resulting from global warming because peak oil will come first.
Feel free to change it in your settings then ...
I would much rather my government "waste" millions on studies and programs designed to prevent something that may or may not happen than just use a best case scenario approach and hope for the best.
I would have defended myself, but you put it exactly as I had.
IE is integrated into the OS, which is why when IE gets infected, it is worse than any "regular" program.
Whereas IE is the OS ... which is why it is such a security nightmare.
Have you tried using the Firefox ActiveX plugin?
Not to mention, as far as he is concerned, I am not a Patriot and I don't deserve to be an American citizen, because I'm agnostic.
His personal rhetoric doesn't back up that claim (of course, he may just be being PC for a photo-op):
"Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all."
Check out Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations
That is not the right interpretation.
You'd better hope the judge hearing your case agrees.
Just check the "copyrighted" flag on MP3 files ... duh!
P.S. I know this will get modded down offtopic or flame-bait, but I've got Karma to burn and it needed to be said.
Its a good thing you put that in there or else you would have been modded down. Fits right in there with the "just say what people want you to say".
At this point, /. would run a YRO story about coathangers.
Why is it that everytime /. runs a story with the word "Phonographic" in it, there are ~10 posts about how "Phonographic" looks like "Pornographic"?
If leaders of 3rd world countries can see the potential problems, why can't western farmers?
Isn't it just easier to sit back and pretend everything is ok?
Why worry when you have an SUV that gets 10 MPG and a television that gets 300 channels? What more could anyone want?
No, my good sir, the messages. You know, what he wrote.
Yahoo! and he agreed to a contract. Yahoo! would supply the storage medium (in this case hard drives) and he could store his writings on them.
I store files on my university web account. Does the university now own my files? I'm sure you have personal information on a bank's servers. Do they now own that information since its on their hard drives?
At what point do robots get similar rights to humans? If creating an artificial intelligence is tantamount to creating a new life form, then what rights do these life forms get? Those inalienable rights endowed by their Creator?
It seems to me that robots are finite state machines (unlike humans, I think) and should have no more rights than a toaster. Of course, if any of them can solve the Halting Problem, I'd be ready to give them voting rights et al.
The account itself is indeed a service, the messages themselves are not.
Ever seen this lately?
Comments are owned by the Poster.
If I'm not mistaken there is an tabbed browsing extension that allows for loading javascript links in tabs.
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Then again it may not
I am a "victim" of what you are talking about.
I was way ahead of my classes through most of primary and secondary school. I could read at a 2nd or 3rd grade level when I was 4, etc. The first 4 years of school were me being bored off my ass. The next 8 were me not being bored, but still not being challenged enough.
Many people would think that this would be great, not having to try in 12.5 years of school, but it ended up backfiring. Once I got to college and actually was challenged, I had no clue what do to since I had never experienced that in high school. Subsequently, I am struggling through my 3rd year in CS/CEG.
You were modded funny, but I thought you made a good point. Corporate charters, IMHO, should be revoked if corporations commit any felony.
"Look mommy, the goldfish put a lincoln log in me sock drawer. Thats the story of Jesus."
How I miss Bill Hicks.
The Supreme Court of the USA decided a long time ago that corporations are people in their own right and are therefore entitled to all other freedoms that regular people enjoy.
We need that to be overturned before anything else.