Eventually people will start talking about paying a "google tax". Businesses will need to recover the expense of advertising and the expense of the transaction. Guess who they will recover it from?
And that's how payment proccessors work. Whether a merchant uses GBuy, Paypal, Verisign, or deals with Visa/MC/Amex/Disover directly, they all charge money. So unless an e-tailer makes you send cash in the mail, (and then you have the "Post office tax") somebody is paying that fee somewhere.
Likewise with advertising. Unless you depend on word-of-mouth and good press, advertising costs money whether it's with Google, the radio, tv, or the newspaper.
Well, Paypal's specialization is in paying for ebay sales and other person-to-person transactions. They are trying to move into merchant space, but that's not really where their core business is. From what I've read about GBuy, is it's specifically built to be in the merchant space.
It will most likely be a Paypal/MS Passport/Yahoo Wallet type service where you can shop online but only have to give out your card information to a single company.
What does that even have to do with what I said? The concept isn't difficult. You pay a company for a service. They provide that service, presumably at a cost to them less than what they charged you. Paying them gives you a degree of control over the service you are paying for, but it doesn't give you any control over what they do with the rest of it. As far as internet access is concerned, Verizon isn't even a monopoly as there are different choices.
However, this is done quiet often in the distribution world. Most software distributors I've dealt with require an application payment. I don't actually agree with the strategy, but it's done so that they only have to deal with "serious" companies.
Now the major difference is these distributors have competition, but the only competetion to protected WMA/V DRM is Apple's FairPlay, which only Apple gets to use.
Also realize that, in effect, this is exactly what the DVD-CCA does. Only issues liscences to people who agree to play by their restrictive terms.
On a certain level MS probably also believes that their DRM will be cracked more easily/quickly if smaller, less "ethical" coders could get their hands on it. But it didn't do the DVD people much good. IIRC, DVD Jon was able to crack CSS after the cypher was anonymously leaked to him
Growing up, my doctor half-jokingly instructed me to never stick anything in your ear smaller than my elbow.
I find earbuds to be EXTEREMELY uncomfortable, I don't even use the cell-phone hands-free sets that you stick in your ear. For a cell-phone headset, I use the receptionist style headset.
More too the point, I find all headphones to be uncomfortable after a period of time (say half an hour or so), so I wind up sitting the headphones near my ears, but off my head, or take them off entirely and crank up the volume so they act as passive desktop speakers.
Getting back to the actual topic. While the fact that earbuds can cause hearing loss (IIRC Pete Townsend recently spoke out against earbuds because he experienced hearing loss from headphones) is widely known, it is largely considered a wive's tale and/or it really hasn't reached a critical mass of people knowing.
On top of that, before the iPod, there weren't half as many people using earbuds as there currently are, so Apple HAS promoted a design that has an under-documented medical issue.
How the suit is going to play out is the guy's lawyer is going to allege that earbuds intrinsically cause hearing loss, and have expert testimony and medical reports documenting this. Meanwhile, Apple's lawyers are going to allege that this man suffered hearing loss from years of listening to music at too high a volume, using speakers, headphones, and earbuds, and a jury will decide which side is more plausable
Not to be a (total) dick, but I'm 6' 3" and 200 lbs and in college I was 185 lbs at the same height. According to the CDC BMI calculator, 5'8" and 197 lbs BMI = 30. This is the borderline between overweight and obese. If you are 5'8" and 198 lbs or more you are obese. This is not an insult, it is a diagnosis based on observed data.
This is point I was trying to make. Medically, I am obese, but I would consider myself merely overweight. And that isn't just a "feelgood" determination. By blood pressure tends to sit around 110/70, despite my "obesity" and family history of hypertension. In the summer time, when allergies are an issue, I sometimes have problems with low blood pressure.
The "inch of fat" test, I do fail, but as I said, I do admit to being overweight But my legs are very lean and muscular, well, less muscular now than before, but still lean.
My problem has always been a slow metabolism. Which is why exercise has always been much more important for weight loss for me than calorie limiting. And that's why I'll never get below 200 again. You see, a couple years ago, I was in a "you should be dead" car accident which amazingingly left me relatively unscathed, with the exception of chronic joint pain for my knees. I was in a 68 Beetle and slid into the dash knees first. The patela is supposed to sit in a grove along the femur, and mine is now a bit-cockeyed. If you listen closely in a quiet room, when I flex my quads, you can actually hear my knees groan. It makes aerobic exercise (such as walking) painful, with the pain increasing the longer I'm on my feet.
Call me again when the definition of "overweight" and "obese" are more realistic. Now I'm not going to deny that there are people who are really overweight (I freely admit that I need to loose a few pounds, and am working on it), but the definitions for overweight are rediculous. If you wieght more than 30 pounds more than what the medical charts say you should weight, then you are considered obese.
I'm a 5'8 male, and according to the charts, my "ideal" weight is 159 lbs, and I should weigh no more than 175. Now in college, I managed to get down to 190 for a while, which is still "legally" overwieght. Back then I was consuming And that was college. I seriously doubt I could get under 200 lbs and live to tell about it.
This is an interesting philosophy. Can you tell me why I should not extend this to "If they are going to build a building over there, they should have done it already?" or something equally strange when confusing the requisite temporal sequencing of intent and execution?
I think this is more a case of building a building without toilets, opening the building, and someone claiming the toilets are going to be added later.
Except, IIRC, they used the phones as timers, using the vibrate function of the phone to set off the bomb after a preset alarm went off. This doesn't require any cellular service
I've got a friend who called a tech support in India one time, and they were having a horrible time understanding each other, until they discovered that they both knew Japanese (my friend swore, and the guy understood it) they were able get through the conversation through fragmented Japanese better than they could in English.
All that being said... how about if the next thing that happens includes something not all that physically damaging, but which will Completely Freak People Out.
You mean like the government saying there's an elevated risk of a terror attack?
By that logic, we shouldn't call software engineers, engineer's, it's belittling to engineers who deal with large peices of hardware. We should just call them programmers, because that's all they really do.
Unless you believe that mixing is something that can be done by any schmuck without any training, or that mixing has nothing to do with music, you have to agree that mixing requires a specialized form of musical ability, just like playing the guitar requires a specialized form of musical ability.
As far as cover bands are concerned, calling a mixer a musician is no different than calling the guitarist in the cover band a musician. At the very least, a mixer isn't any different then someone who plays a syntehsizer, or are synth players not real musicians either?
The same could be said about land yachts where the front end sticks out 3 or 4 feet in front of the wheels. But I guess it would require people to relearn how to drive. I just know that after the summer I operated a forklift, I fell in love with the idea of rear-steering.
Okay, I see that now. I was stumbling over the fact that email from other students and teachers was automatically approved, but to do that, you just put the school's entire domain (ufrsd.k12.nj.us) on the whitelist.
The point where your complaint breaks down is that according to the computer user agreement that students and their legal guardian must sign at the beginning of the year is that the school email is too be used for school purposes, which is why 75% of my class had HoTMaiL accounts.
Of course the other part of the problem is that this discussion is about high schooler's, at which point most parents and administrators are less worried about them ACCIDENTLY seing adult material and more worried about them PURPOSELY seeing adult material, or CREATING their own adult material.
If say I invented X and didn't know that you too had invented X, would I then be in infringement?
If they are the same design, they patent theirs, and you try to sell yours, then yes, you are in infringement.
And that's my biggest issue with patents, they don't take into account the very real possibility that two different people can reach the same conclusion.
Say there is a need two deisgn an automated way of threading needles (I'm sure this problem has been solved already, but just as an example). You and I are both aware of this need and independently and with no prior knowledge that the other is working on it (or at least what the other is doing to solve the need). We both design an effective, non-obvious way to automate the needle threading proccess, and we both wound up with the same resulting machine, and you get yours patented. What moreal or ethical right do you have to stop me from selling my machine, that I invented completely independently of you, just because you invented yours first.
Think of it this way, should Newton have sued Leibniz for infringing his invention of calculus?
The way I see it, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to put the driving wheels under the light end of the car, far from the engine, and not on the wheels that steer the car, so that the engine can't augment the steering, rather than fighting it. That goes double when driving on wet, slippery or snow-covered roads.
There is less weight in the back of the vehicle, which gives you less control of the vehicle over all, this is especially a problem with pickups in icy weather.
I agree that it makes sense for the drive wheels and the steer wheels to be the same, but I always thought that they should be in the back (and put a rear engine in too, like in the Beetle). You can make tighter turns that way.
On your ponit #2) There are two major differences between what having a church "raise your kid" and having the government do it. First, the church is voluntary. If I go to a church, I'm expected to pay my dues, but I don't have to give a church nothing, if I don't use it. But I still have to pay the government, whether I want their services or not. Second, Dada's point was to SHARE the responsibility in the church, not foist off and expect something for nothing.
That's funny, because my mother hasn't worked a day since my sister was born in 1986. She decided to be a stay-at-home mom instead. It's been tight financially, but we've survived. Neither of my parents are college educated or particularly "skilled" My father drives a truck. Now that I've grown and am working full time, I'd say I average a paycheck every two months on helping my family financially (and the rest is paying off my college debt)
When I was in high school (I graduated in 1999), the school's email service bounced messages from outside the server being sent to students mail unless the email address was in the student's contact list
It's usually a case of the extension developer knowing it works with the current version, but can't possibly know if that a functionality that the extension calls upo will be changed in the next update. For FF, Mr. Tech Local Install has an option of letting you ignore the max version line of the extension when you install it. It can cause problems however, like the GP said. When I upgraded to FF 1.5 switchproxy 0.34 completely messed up FF, I had to roll uninstall, reinstall and use my archived profile and use switchproxy 0.32 with max ver ignored. That works just fine.
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And that's how payment proccessors work. Whether a merchant uses GBuy, Paypal, Verisign, or deals with Visa/MC/Amex/Disover directly, they all charge money. So unless an e-tailer makes you send cash in the mail, (and then you have the "Post office tax") somebody is paying that fee somewhere.
Likewise with advertising. Unless you depend on word-of-mouth and good press, advertising costs money whether it's with Google, the radio, tv, or the newspaper.
It will most likely be a Paypal/MS Passport/Yahoo Wallet type service where you can shop online but only have to give out your card information to a single company.
What does that even have to do with what I said? The concept isn't difficult. You pay a company for a service. They provide that service, presumably at a cost to them less than what they charged you. Paying them gives you a degree of control over the service you are paying for, but it doesn't give you any control over what they do with the rest of it. As far as internet access is concerned, Verizon isn't even a monopoly as there are different choices.
Come on people, a telecom is trying to be innovative and provide more services, and /. is complaining?
Now the major difference is these distributors have competition, but the only competetion to protected WMA/V DRM is Apple's FairPlay, which only Apple gets to use.
Also realize that, in effect, this is exactly what the DVD-CCA does. Only issues liscences to people who agree to play by their restrictive terms.
On a certain level MS probably also believes that their DRM will be cracked more easily/quickly if smaller, less "ethical" coders could get their hands on it. But it didn't do the DVD people much good. IIRC, DVD Jon was able to crack CSS after the cypher was anonymously leaked to him
I find earbuds to be EXTEREMELY uncomfortable, I don't even use the cell-phone hands-free sets that you stick in your ear. For a cell-phone headset, I use the receptionist style headset.
More too the point, I find all headphones to be uncomfortable after a period of time (say half an hour or so), so I wind up sitting the headphones near my ears, but off my head, or take them off entirely and crank up the volume so they act as passive desktop speakers.
Getting back to the actual topic. While the fact that earbuds can cause hearing loss (IIRC Pete Townsend recently spoke out against earbuds because he experienced hearing loss from headphones) is widely known, it is largely considered a wive's tale and/or it really hasn't reached a critical mass of people knowing.
On top of that, before the iPod, there weren't half as many people using earbuds as there currently are, so Apple HAS promoted a design that has an under-documented medical issue.
How the suit is going to play out is the guy's lawyer is going to allege that earbuds intrinsically cause hearing loss, and have expert testimony and medical reports documenting this. Meanwhile, Apple's lawyers are going to allege that this man suffered hearing loss from years of listening to music at too high a volume, using speakers, headphones, and earbuds, and a jury will decide which side is more plausable
This is point I was trying to make. Medically, I am obese, but I would consider myself merely overweight. And that isn't just a "feelgood" determination. By blood pressure tends to sit around 110/70, despite my "obesity" and family history of hypertension. In the summer time, when allergies are an issue, I sometimes have problems with low blood pressure.
The "inch of fat" test, I do fail, but as I said, I do admit to being overweight But my legs are very lean and muscular, well, less muscular now than before, but still lean.
My problem has always been a slow metabolism. Which is why exercise has always been much more important for weight loss for me than calorie limiting. And that's why I'll never get below 200 again. You see, a couple years ago, I was in a "you should be dead" car accident which amazingingly left me relatively unscathed, with the exception of chronic joint pain for my knees. I was in a 68 Beetle and slid into the dash knees first. The patela is supposed to sit in a grove along the femur, and mine is now a bit-cockeyed. If you listen closely in a quiet room, when I flex my quads, you can actually hear my knees groan. It makes aerobic exercise (such as walking) painful, with the pain increasing the longer I'm on my feet.
I'm a 5'8 male, and according to the charts, my "ideal" weight is 159 lbs, and I should weigh no more than 175. Now in college, I managed to get down to 190 for a while, which is still "legally" overwieght. Back then I was consuming And that was college. I seriously doubt I could get under 200 lbs and live to tell about it.
Care to point out some of these cracking tools? I'd really like to be able to join a yahoogroup in under 3 tries
I think this is more a case of building a building without toilets, opening the building, and someone claiming the toilets are going to be added later.
Except, IIRC, they used the phones as timers, using the vibrate function of the phone to set off the bomb after a preset alarm went off. This doesn't require any cellular service
I've got a friend who called a tech support in India one time, and they were having a horrible time understanding each other, until they discovered that they both knew Japanese (my friend swore, and the guy understood it) they were able get through the conversation through fragmented Japanese better than they could in English.
software to override copy protection.
You mean like the government saying there's an elevated risk of a terror attack?
Unless you believe that mixing is something that can be done by any schmuck without any training, or that mixing has nothing to do with music, you have to agree that mixing requires a specialized form of musical ability, just like playing the guitar requires a specialized form of musical ability.
As far as cover bands are concerned, calling a mixer a musician is no different than calling the guitarist in the cover band a musician. At the very least, a mixer isn't any different then someone who plays a syntehsizer, or are synth players not real musicians either?
Yes, if you're going to dance naked in your bedroom, you are legally required to do so with the drapes open.
The same could be said about land yachts where the front end sticks out 3 or 4 feet in front of the wheels. But I guess it would require people to relearn how to drive. I just know that after the summer I operated a forklift, I fell in love with the idea of rear-steering.
The point where your complaint breaks down is that according to the computer user agreement that students and their legal guardian must sign at the beginning of the year is that the school email is too be used for school purposes, which is why 75% of my class had HoTMaiL accounts.
Of course the other part of the problem is that this discussion is about high schooler's, at which point most parents and administrators are less worried about them ACCIDENTLY seing adult material and more worried about them PURPOSELY seeing adult material, or CREATING their own adult material.
If they are the same design, they patent theirs, and you try to sell yours, then yes, you are in infringement.
And that's my biggest issue with patents, they don't take into account the very real possibility that two different people can reach the same conclusion.
Say there is a need two deisgn an automated way of threading needles (I'm sure this problem has been solved already, but just as an example). You and I are both aware of this need and independently and with no prior knowledge that the other is working on it (or at least what the other is doing to solve the need). We both design an effective, non-obvious way to automate the needle threading proccess, and we both wound up with the same resulting machine, and you get yours patented. What moreal or ethical right do you have to stop me from selling my machine, that I invented completely independently of you, just because you invented yours first.
Think of it this way, should Newton have sued Leibniz for infringing his invention of calculus?
I first heard about this parent issue 2 or 3 years ago.
There is less weight in the back of the vehicle, which gives you less control of the vehicle over all, this is especially a problem with pickups in icy weather.
I agree that it makes sense for the drive wheels and the steer wheels to be the same, but I always thought that they should be in the back (and put a rear engine in too, like in the Beetle). You can make tighter turns that way.
On your ponit #2) There are two major differences between what having a church "raise your kid" and having the government do it. First, the church is voluntary. If I go to a church, I'm expected to pay my dues, but I don't have to give a church nothing, if I don't use it. But I still have to pay the government, whether I want their services or not. Second, Dada's point was to SHARE the responsibility in the church, not foist off and expect something for nothing. That's funny, because my mother hasn't worked a day since my sister was born in 1986. She decided to be a stay-at-home mom instead. It's been tight financially, but we've survived. Neither of my parents are college educated or particularly "skilled" My father drives a truck. Now that I've grown and am working full time, I'd say I average a paycheck every two months on helping my family financially (and the rest is paying off my college debt)
When I was in high school (I graduated in 1999), the school's email service bounced messages from outside the server being sent to students mail unless the email address was in the student's contact list
It's usually a case of the extension developer knowing it works with the current version, but can't possibly know if that a functionality that the extension calls upo will be changed in the next update. For FF, Mr. Tech Local Install has an option of letting you ignore the max version line of the extension when you install it. It can cause problems however, like the GP said. When I upgraded to FF 1.5 switchproxy 0.34 completely messed up FF, I had to roll uninstall, reinstall and use my archived profile and use switchproxy 0.32 with max ver ignored. That works just fine.
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