You know Microsoft wants you to think that they are loosing money but I am sorry no company would do that. There is no way MS is loosing money on the Xbox I don't believe they ever have or ever will.
I block ads because of popups. and those full page ads are just as bad as popups.
If companys would stop using popups less people would block ads and they would make more money.
I use Direcway and so far there is not one thing good about them. There are way to expensive, There UNfair access policy is not clear. I have had it happen after 80Mb and I have had it at 200Mb. There is no set limit that shuts you off, Its at there dicrection. There support sucks, Its almost inposable to get ahold of someone that knows what there talking about and even then it takes you about 1:30 on hold to get to them. The seirvice constantly gose donwn, atleast 4 times a day and the worced part is its not even broudband its using an excelrator like dialup.
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Are we talking about KDE or Windows.
I wonder if M$ plans on making a patent and sue the KDE project. Maybe its time for M$ to come up with there own ideas and stop stealing other peoples ideas. For the life of me I cant think of one thing that M$ has done first.
It has a lot to do with deals that the entertanment cartel has with ISP's to stop P2P. If the ISP's do not do it the entertanment cartel dose not let them use content.
Not to be agumentitive but I think maybe if people continue to use P2P etc. it might even help the problem with DRM.
If people that don't want to go with P2P there is always allofmp3.com not only do they not use DRM but they let you pick your encoding rate, file format, and they only charge about.02 cents a MB. the average song at 128Bit costs about.09 cents
People have fair use rights and the entertainment cartel does NOT have the right to take those rights away from us.
Just like they think they have the right to sue people for sharing files WE have the right to use our media in the way you want to. Its called FAIR USE RIGHTS
I agree totally but the problem is they don't care.
I will not buy anything with DRM ether. In fact i will not but anything with copy protection at all.
The problem is those companys don't need us to buy it. The joe regular of the world is already buying it and he doesn't know any better. He dosnt understand the Technology so you cant explain to him why its bad. For people like us its ovius why its bad.
Until the general public is educated on DRM's short comings. Witch buy the way are MUCH greater then there benefits the industry will take over. At this point I use allofmp3.com but that will be gone someday and itunes and napster will rain. All we can do now is try to educate people and for god sake if you understand DRM don't buy the crap people because your making the problem worse. If you insist on buying DRM then open your mouth and let me piss in it, It will only cost you.99
IBM just doesn't care. The 75GXP is a perfect example of IBM not caring. They are no longer a good company they haven't been for a long time. They are as corrupt as the rest of them. All they care about is the bottom line and they don't give a crap about the quality of there products. The E-Machine is another good example of IBM not caring about there customers. I would never even build a system like that and that goes to show that in this world you cannot compete unless you don't care about your products.So if there products have a back door who cares as long as they have someone else to blame it on.
you mentioned lots of reasons against P2P but you didn't mention the #1 reason why you soudnt buy music from them. DRM. You are not buying music. If that was your argument then all those reasons you mentioned can be done with the AllofMP3 explorer and you don't get the DRM.
And I would also like to say that p2p is not illegal before this all started there was no law against it. The entertainment mafia has paid off our government offishals to make these laws. They are not in my eyes valid laws, for that matter who is looking after us. Copy protection is against our fair use rights. Why isn't that illegal.
You guys are all morons. Your not buying songs off of those services. They are DRM inflicted adware. The only True online music sources are P2P and services like AllofMP3.com
Everyone that pays money for DRM adware is making the problem worse. In fact they are causing the problem to begin with.
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And I am sure it will work in Linux to right.
I would love to see mod chips for these. Its the only way I would buy one. For that matter its the only reason I bought the first X-Box.
You know Microsoft wants you to think that they are loosing money but I am sorry no company would do that. There is no way MS is loosing money on the Xbox I don't believe they ever have or ever will.
I block ads because of popups. and those full page ads are just as bad as popups. If companys would stop using popups less people would block ads and they would make more money.
I use Direcway and so far there is not one thing good about them. There are way to expensive, There UNfair access policy is not clear. I have had it happen after 80Mb and I have had it at 200Mb. There is no set limit that shuts you off, Its at there dicrection. There support sucks, Its almost inposable to get ahold of someone that knows what there talking about and even then it takes you about 1:30 on hold to get to them. The seirvice constantly gose donwn, atleast 4 times a day and the worced part is its not even broudband its using an excelrator like dialup.
over $2000 for there stupid useless MSDN just so I can try the beta out. Not, I guess I will be going to kazza later.
Translucent windows and Icons that look like the documents they represent. Are we talking about KDE or Windows. I wonder if M$ plans on making a patent and sue the KDE project. Maybe its time for M$ to come up with there own ideas and stop stealing other peoples ideas. For the life of me I cant think of one thing that M$ has done first.
It has a lot to do with deals that the entertanment cartel has with ISP's to stop P2P. If the ISP's do not do it the entertanment cartel dose not let them use content.
Not to be agumentitive but I think maybe if people continue to use P2P etc. it might even help the problem with DRM.
If people that don't want to go with P2P there is always allofmp3.com not only do they not use DRM but they let you pick your encoding rate, file format, and they only charge about.02 cents a MB. the average song at 128Bit costs about
Its attitude like that creating the problem.
People have fair use rights and the entertainment cartel does NOT have the right to take those rights away from us.
Just like they think they have the right to sue people for sharing files WE have the right to use our media in the way you want to. Its called FAIR USE RIGHTS
I agree totally but the problem is they don't care.
I will not buy anything with DRM ether. In fact i will not but anything with copy protection at all.
The problem is those companys don't need us to buy it. The joe regular of the world is already buying it and he doesn't know any better. He dosnt understand the Technology so you cant explain to him why its bad. For people like us its ovius why its bad.
Until the general public is educated on DRM's short comings. Witch buy the way are MUCH greater then there benefits the industry will take over. At this point I use allofmp3.com but that will be gone someday and itunes and napster will rain. All we can do now is try to educate people and for god sake if you understand DRM don't buy the crap people because your making the problem worse. If you insist on buying DRM then open your mouth and let me piss in it, It will only cost you.99
Has that been tested. Wasn't Apple going to lock it down some how so Intel people cannot use it.
Linux is ready for the desktop. I use SuSE 9.2 right now and love it.
Like most techs know tigerdirect is worce then frys. and thats saying a lot. becuse frys realy sucks.
I think his views are right. I think every thing he said in his article was completely correct and is not only our right but its our responsibility.
IBM just doesn't care. The 75GXP is a perfect example of IBM not caring. They are no longer a good company they haven't been for a long time. They are as corrupt as the rest of them. All they care about is the bottom line and they don't give a crap about the quality of there products. The E-Machine is another good example of IBM not caring about there customers. I would never even build a system like that and that goes to show that in this world you cannot compete unless you don't care about your products.So if there products have a back door who cares as long as they have someone else to blame it on.
The problem with these $300 PC's is that there garbage. A real computer that has some quality is twice that.
And I would also like to say that p2p is not illegal before this all started there was no law against it. The entertainment mafia has paid off our government offishals to make these laws. They are not in my eyes valid laws, for that matter who is looking after us. Copy protection is against our fair use rights. Why isn't that illegal.
at least i cant find a FREE as in BEER program for it.
Hell just download the songs from p2p and burn them to the new media.
Any skaters in here remember the SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A CRIME bumper stickers well we need some DOWNLOADING IS NOT A CRIME stickers.
YOUR NOT BUYING MUSIC FROM THOSE SERVICES
Its DRM infected adware.
Or you can share there music online and tell them to fuck off.
You guys are all morons. Your not buying songs off of those services. They are DRM inflicted adware. The only True online music sources are P2P and services like AllofMP3.com Everyone that pays money for DRM adware is making the problem worse. In fact they are causing the problem to begin with.
I was just thinking the same thing
It stops people from falling victim to there crimes. It theory it could be saving the American general public hundreds of thousands of dollars.