What's the problem with this? I've been thinking about getting a tv-out card and didn't know of any problems. I know of problems with input devices respecting macrovision, but not output.
I wish I had mod points today, this is good advice.
I get books from my library, I can search for the right books and place holds online, I pick them up when they're ready. I've found obscure books and mainstream books, if there isn't a line you can keep them for months, and when the book is obsolete you simply return it.
I have trouble throwing things out, especially books. There are very VERY few tech reference books I think I need to own. That ASP.NET app I have to work on doesn't mean I have to own a book about it.
Between online references and the library I haven't bought a tech book in 2 years.
I had an earlier version of that kit, it had one 7400 and less embarassing packaging.
I remember the self-feeding oscillators had very amusing names for an 8 year old: Astable Multivibrator, only surpassed in humor-quotient by Bistable Multivibrator.
My discount yugoslavian keyboard doesn't have that funky L-lookin' "pound sterling" key mmmkay? Plus, I bet slashcode doesn't let it through anyway. I'll give one Euro to the first reply showing me that symbol.
The stores think they can get away with this bullshit. Charging more for things then putting prices back the way they were with some lame-ass card? Won't work on me, or anyone old enough to remember the happier times before these became popular.
So, if you can't beat 'em, fuck them at their own game!
Use bogus cards, use somebody else's card, use a new card every time. Their puny attempt at gathering data is hopelessly corrupted. They lose money every time you get a new card. Someday it will become apparent that this is costing them money and the madness just might stop!
I guess we have different ways of dealing with abuse like this. If I can find a solution that
Gives me what I want Costs the bastards Makes me laugh
I have fake cards at every store I shop at. I don't care if I lose them or give them away, since I can get a new one every time. Hopefully they lose a bit of money every time I get a new card, they never get any "real" info out of me, and their database of customer habits is filling up with "Sham Fraud 123 Fake st Springfield ST 12345"
Feel free to use this information when you get a card, with my compliments.
Also there are people like this who encourage you to print out their barcode and paste it on your club card.
Stop freaking out, and start sticking it to the man at his own game!
You act like they want your SSID, original birth certificate, and mother's maiden name. But if you ask calmly, they'll hand you a card with an application you don't have to fill out right away EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Sure, its not graphical like packaged food products, but advertising absolutely exists.
I disagree. By that logic, keeping the floor mopped is an ad. Does a tree advertise by dropping dead leaves?
Semantics. I guess I'm bothered by blatant, explicit advertising. I'm not bothered that my grapefruit has been waxed. If my grapefruit asks if I've considered the new Ram TopHeavy 550 I'm going to get upset.
The produce aisle is the single place in the store that isn't all ads. That's changing as they figure out how to overpackage produce, but for now you can go for dozens of feet without seeing brands, packaging, etc.
That is unacceptable to these advertising bastards, so they want to put a frickin TV there.
Oh well, they're trying to put TVs on buses and trains here in Denver, and I've seen such in other cities already. The whole advantage to taking transit is I can read instead of marvel at other people's driving skills. I can't read when a TV is blaring. I don't have the antibodies for it. I watch about 2 hours of TV a week, so I am as helpless as a kitten at tuning it out.
At least they're not beaming ads into my dreams yet.
I've been using HR Block online since I got a mortgage. I will never give them any money, so I decline their "professional review" and "electronic state filing for $20" options.
Am I burdening their servers by using the free service? Or am I contributing to their profit?
Either way, at least I don't have to use any paper to do taxes.
The features they noticed were tabs and ctrl-+/-. Asked me how to do it in IE. I told them to try firefox. Thanks for the link, though.
Standards. I wish.
My app has to play nice with the other sites ASP.NET apps, so my hands are tied. Life is too short to use the right tool when the wrong one is so much less work.
I'm responsible for several installs of firefox around here after I accidently demo'd my app with firefox and they wondered why it looked different in IE. I'm also the IT guy, so no problem there.
After years of experimentation, I now cook beans in a pressure cooker for about 1.5 hours. They are so cooked they are falling apart, and they don't have musical powers.
As for the EULA, you can also claim that you have not installed this package yourself and have not accepted the EULA. The CD was tested by mounting on a Linux system and browsing through the directory structure.
I thought that they printed the EULA on the CD envelope to avoid this defense. "By opening this package the user agrees..."
I guess I wasn't clear. I don't think that piracy is justified because copyright is abused. I think since copyright is abused studios don't have the right to complain about piracy.
It is hypocrisy in this example case of the original star trek series. It made nearly all the profit it was going to make in about 10 years. Then VHS came along, despite the studios protests. They sold VHS tapes of the episodes, but it cost about $5 per episode to make. Now that they can make a DVD with 4 episodes for $1. So a fan of the series paid for it once, by watching ads. Again by buying VHS. Again by buying DVD. The show already made its profit. The consumer has to keep paying for it. Forever. What reason is there to respect copyright when it is abused like this? What does society get out of such a copyright system? The public domain is not growing from works falling into it anymore. Society pays for copyright enforcement through courts and police. If this is what we get for it we should stop. At least we should renegotiate the whole deal.
But here's the crazy thing-- Sony is rewarding him for it. By just pirating everything, he's getting a quantifiably better media experience than those of us who are law-abiding consumers.
Hmm...Sony rewarded pirates with the whole rootkit clusterfuck, too. If it weren't clearly crazy I'd suspect Sony is trying to encourage pirates.
I don't think the issue is simple. Many people think copyright is broken.
Changing technology has been a real boon for studios. Now they can sell content that has already made its profit all over again. And again. Forever. Copyright is a deal between the public and the content creator - we give you a temporary monopoly in exchange for the creation. That has been perverted by a huge lobbying effort over the years.
Changing technology has also been a boon for pirates. It is possible to make perfect copies for nearly no cost.
It seems a bit hypocritical for studios to eagerly profit from new technology while complaining about piracy. Especially when copyright has been tilted more and more in their favor until now it is practically Forever.
You raise good points. I think if $100 laptops are available, it will drive infrastructure development. I don't know if it is the best place to start, but it isn't pure idiocy either.
A minor quibble, the US/Soviet writing in space story is false
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whew, thanks.
What's the problem with this? I've been thinking about getting a tv-out card and didn't know of any problems. I know of problems with input devices respecting macrovision, but not output.
I get books from my library, I can search for the right books and place holds online, I pick them up when they're ready. I've found obscure books and mainstream books, if there isn't a line you can keep them for months, and when the book is obsolete you simply return it.
I have trouble throwing things out, especially books. There are very VERY few tech reference books I think I need to own. That ASP.NET app I have to work on doesn't mean I have to own a book about it.
Between online references and the library I haven't bought a tech book in 2 years.
I remember the self-feeding oscillators had very amusing names for an 8 year old: Astable Multivibrator, only surpassed in humor-quotient by Bistable Multivibrator.
£ There, I cut and pasted it.
My discount yugoslavian keyboard doesn't have that funky L-lookin' "pound sterling" key mmmkay? Plus, I bet slashcode doesn't let it through anyway. I'll give one Euro to the first reply showing me that symbol.
Scramjet pointed straight down. Airspeed, check.
Getting paid to destructively test a million pound device, wow. That'd be so cool. Brains, check.
Looks like they've got 3/3.
The stores think they can get away with this bullshit. Charging more for things then putting prices back the way they were with some lame-ass card? Won't work on me, or anyone old enough to remember the happier times before these became popular.
So, if you can't beat 'em, fuck them at their own game!
Use bogus cards, use somebody else's card, use a new card every time. Their puny attempt at gathering data is hopelessly corrupted. They lose money every time you get a new card. Someday it will become apparent that this is costing them money and the madness just might stop!
I guess we have different ways of dealing with abuse like this. If I can find a solution that
Gives me what I want
Costs the bastards
Makes me laugh
then I think I just won.
And you people bitch about slashdot being ugly, broken, and slow.
I have fake cards at every store I shop at. I don't care if I lose them or give them away, since I can get a new one every time. Hopefully they lose a bit of money every time I get a new card, they never get any "real" info out of me, and their database of customer habits is filling up with "Sham Fraud 123 Fake st Springfield ST 12345"
Feel free to use this information when you get a card, with my compliments.
Also there are people like this who encourage you to print out their barcode and paste it on your club card.
Stop freaking out, and start sticking it to the man at his own game!
You act like they want your SSID, original birth certificate, and mother's maiden name. But if you ask calmly, they'll hand you a card with an application you don't have to fill out right away EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I disagree. By that logic, keeping the floor mopped is an ad. Does a tree advertise by dropping dead leaves?
Semantics. I guess I'm bothered by blatant, explicit advertising. I'm not bothered that my grapefruit has been waxed. If my grapefruit asks if I've considered the new Ram TopHeavy 550 I'm going to get upset.
That is unacceptable to these advertising bastards, so they want to put a frickin TV there.
Oh well, they're trying to put TVs on buses and trains here in Denver, and I've seen such in other cities already. The whole advantage to taking transit is I can read instead of marvel at other people's driving skills. I can't read when a TV is blaring. I don't have the antibodies for it. I watch about 2 hours of TV a week, so I am as helpless as a kitten at tuning it out.
At least they're not beaming ads into my dreams yet.
Am I burdening their servers by using the free service? Or am I contributing to their profit?
Either way, at least I don't have to use any paper to do taxes.
Catholic school is not over in minutes, neither is going to church every week "to set a good example."
Then again, a large reason I'm an athiest is because my father gave in a bit at a time and I would up being forced to attend church/jesus camp/etc.
Standards. I wish.
My app has to play nice with the other sites ASP.NET apps, so my hands are tied. Life is too short to use the right tool when the wrong one is so much less work.
I'm responsible for several installs of firefox around here after I accidently demo'd my app with firefox and they wondered why it looked different in IE. I'm also the IT guy, so no problem there.
OK, Pirates came with a High Definition movie on a regular old-fashioned DVD. (like grampa used to buy)
Not a HD-DVD, this new probably doomed format.
Makes you think.
After years of experimentation, I now cook beans in a pressure cooker for about 1.5 hours. They are so cooked they are falling apart, and they don't have musical powers.
I'll bet all the kids making fun of you feel bad now.
As for the EULA, you can also claim that you have not installed this package yourself and have not accepted the EULA. The CD was tested by mounting on a Linux system and browsing through the directory structure.
I thought that they printed the EULA on the CD envelope to avoid this defense. "By opening this package the user agrees..."
It is hypocrisy in this example case of the original star trek series. It made nearly all the profit it was going to make in about 10 years. Then VHS came along, despite the studios protests. They sold VHS tapes of the episodes, but it cost about $5 per episode to make. Now that they can make a DVD with 4 episodes for $1. So a fan of the series paid for it once, by watching ads. Again by buying VHS. Again by buying DVD. The show already made its profit. The consumer has to keep paying for it. Forever. What reason is there to respect copyright when it is abused like this? What does society get out of such a copyright system? The public domain is not growing from works falling into it anymore. Society pays for copyright enforcement through courts and police. If this is what we get for it we should stop. At least we should renegotiate the whole deal.
Hmm...Sony rewarded pirates with the whole rootkit clusterfuck, too.
If it weren't clearly crazy I'd suspect Sony is trying to encourage pirates.
Changing technology has been a real boon for studios. Now they can sell content that has already made its profit all over again. And again. Forever. Copyright is a deal between the public and the content creator - we give you a temporary monopoly in exchange for the creation. That has been perverted by a huge lobbying effort over the years.
Changing technology has also been a boon for pirates. It is possible to make perfect copies for nearly no cost.
It seems a bit hypocritical for studios to eagerly profit from new technology while complaining about piracy. Especially when copyright has been tilted more and more in their favor until now it is practically Forever.
A minor quibble, the US/Soviet writing in space story is false