tux could prevent the dairy farmers from injecting the cows with massive amounts of BGH (bovine growth hormone) then we'd be sittin' in butter.
better yet, if fox news could stop sueing its reporters from bringing this story to the public's attention, that'd be even better. http://www.foxbghsuit.com/
it's rather funny, the judge said in effect that fox doesn't have to tell the truth. and we wonder why people like Bernard Goldberg keep harping on about "bias".
conspiracies are abundant. at least 2 people are required to conceal their efforts in comitting a crime, hence the definition.
in a large corporation, does every employee know every detail of every business transaction? all related research?
so you're obviously not in the loop.
it's basic greed. they make 100 billion if they sell you a pill over and over again, preferably for the rest of your life or they make 10 billion selling the cure. once eradicated from earth, that medicine will be completely useless and not able to be sold.
if you were a CEO with less than impeccable morals (CEO, financial backer, etc) would you opt for the 10 billion with a clear conscience or 100 billion with your gold and diamond yacht and your 500 room mansion?
greed always trumps morals and ethics. no doubt about it.
and since neither you or i have exact details of such "back room deals", both of us are right. i will continue to believe that in the shadows, not under the scrutiny of the public, there goes on things that would make you sick to your stomach. i have no confidence whatsoever in the ability of "businessmen" to do the moral thing.
feel free to believe what you want and i will do the same.
and some shill gets trotted out and says to move along, nothing to see here.
give me a good reason that corporations, whose sole existence is to make lots of money, not want to suppress cures, which cannot be sold again and again to the same patients?
a good reason does not exist.
to make more money, you'd have to sell a lot of something or sell something that requires more than 1 unit to be bought, hence no cures.
you sir are more lacking in awareness than the persons whom you accuse of wearing thin sheets of metal.
corporations worship mammon, not ethics, morality and certainly not decency.
there are tons of cases where people do bad things in order to profit, why are corporations exempt?
the studios don't want to let customers have their way with stuff they purchase. and in order to do that, they have to force on them new formats with far worse DRM.
the whole BS about HD requiring far more bitrate is just a smokescreen.
a 2x dvd player is more than enough to handle a high bitrate mpeg4/h264/vc1 stream, 20+ megabits/sec.
this world sucks.
even more so when clueless people help adopt anti-customer technology and business practices.
dvd's can be easily copied and backed up, converted to a higher compression format, etc. you can't do that with future discs, not for a long time. xing won't be making the same mistake twice.
more storage space can come from another format, buying into these technologies only helps to pump up financially our jailers.
except that apple ties its OS to their hardware... that's bigger crap than ms has ever pulled. well, until vista at least.
if you buy a piece of software off of a store shelf, what business is it of the vendor to prevent you using it in a manner the customer sees fit?
clearly, neither ms or apple wanna give you software freedom. to do so would mean they make less money. apple is only currently less evil than ms because ms if far bigger and far more abusive using the powers gained from its virtual monopoly. but if you look back, the apple of the 80's and 90's was not the kind bunny rabbit we perceive them today.
proprietary software has far too many restrictions, real and artificial to be the ultimate inheritor of human computing.
if you're not a big fan of idiots, why don't you read the complaints instead of just assuming the problem is something other than it is.
these nanos are being scratched far more easily than most people imagined. people are saying they've had them scratched just by the fabric of their pockets, let alone keys, pens. and scratching a good looking player (one if its selling points) so easily defeats the claim that it is well manufactured.
it's shoddy workmanship.
even if apple replaces the damaged nanos... they're going to get another shoddy nano in its place.
the only problem with this is, apple won't do anything about this unless they are under financial distress due to a lawsuit.
corporations never do anything unless they legally have to.
if you have to place your cool looking player in an ugly case, making it bigger and heavier... you've already lost a good deal of the reason to get one in the first place.
if your significant other doesn't realize that the diamond trade is run by criminals and buying extremely abundant diamonds at 5 billion percent profit, then that significant other isn't worth hanging on to if they don't change their mind when listening to these arguments.
and neither are you if you buy into the propoganda.
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tux could prevent the dairy farmers from injecting the cows with massive amounts of BGH (bovine growth hormone) then we'd be sittin' in butter.
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better yet, if fox news could stop sueing its reporters from bringing this story to the public's attention, that'd be even better. http://www.foxbghsuit.com/
it's rather funny, the judge said in effect that fox doesn't have to tell the truth. and we wonder why people like Bernard Goldberg keep harping on about "bias".
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follow the google link above for more info.
conspiracies are abundant. at least 2 people are required to conceal their efforts in comitting a crime, hence the definition.
in a large corporation, does every employee know every detail of every business transaction? all related research?
so you're obviously not in the loop.
it's basic greed. they make 100 billion if they sell you a pill over and over again, preferably for the rest of your life or they make 10 billion selling the cure. once eradicated from earth, that medicine will be completely useless and not able to be sold.
if you were a CEO with less than impeccable morals (CEO, financial backer, etc) would you opt for the 10 billion with a clear conscience or 100 billion with your gold and diamond yacht and your 500 room mansion?
greed always trumps morals and ethics. no doubt about it.
and since neither you or i have exact details of such "back room deals", both of us are right. i will continue to believe that in the shadows, not under the scrutiny of the public, there goes on things that would make you sick to your stomach. i have no confidence whatsoever in the ability of "businessmen" to do the moral thing.
feel free to believe what you want and i will do the same.
and some shill gets trotted out and says to move along, nothing to see here.
give me a good reason that corporations, whose sole existence is to make lots of money, not want to suppress cures, which cannot be sold again and again to the same patients?
a good reason does not exist.
to make more money, you'd have to sell a lot of something or sell something that requires more than 1 unit to be bought, hence no cures.
you sir are more lacking in awareness than the persons whom you accuse of wearing thin sheets of metal.
corporations worship mammon, not ethics, morality and certainly not decency.
there are tons of cases where people do bad things in order to profit, why are corporations exempt?
sounds sort of like apple.
those pentium M cpus to perform on par with athlon64's.
their massive 2MEGABYTE l2 caches make up for the fact that they suck without them.
the turion64 and athlon64 cpus perform as well with 512KB cache, hence the much lower cost of those cpus in relation to pentium M's.
ever wonder why notebooks with "centrino" and PM cpus cost a whole lot more than equivalent systems?
it has nothing to do with data rates.
the studios don't want to let customers have their way with stuff they purchase. and in order to do that, they have to force on them new formats with far worse DRM.
the whole BS about HD requiring far more bitrate is just a smokescreen.
a 2x dvd player is more than enough to handle a high bitrate mpeg4/h264/vc1 stream, 20+ megabits/sec.
this world sucks.
even more so when clueless people help adopt anti-customer technology and business practices.
how is it light years better?
explain in detail.
more storage. check.
what else?
neither format is worth a damn.
dvd's can be easily copied and backed up, converted to a higher compression format, etc. you can't do that with future discs, not for a long time. xing won't be making the same mistake twice.
more storage space can come from another format, buying into these technologies only helps to pump up financially our jailers.
just say no to Digital Handcuffs.
isn't that what end users (customers) should be saying?
pssst, blu-ray and hd-dvd are both bad for "consumers".
pass it on.
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world that DRM in any form is beneficial for the public"
open and sony should not be used in the same book, let alone the same sentence.
they make ms look standards-compliant.
hmm, i wonder if you are allowed to use the processor inside the unit you bought for doing other tasks...
gee, and people put nintendo down when they decided to use cartridges for the n64/gba/ds.
load times for ps1/saturn/neogeo cd were atrocious back in the 90's.
even the fastest optical drives are no match for solid state memory like flash.
even with carts, they were still priced competitively, even though cd's were nothing but cheap plastic. makes you think.
optical drives without caching sucks, period.
huh?
are you saying he changed his name?
he means "Trust" in the Insidious Computing sort of way.
Trust to them means the computer will trust its real owners, MS and RIAA/MPAA/Software Industry.
no wonder he was laughing... his friends are all lobbyists and shills.
the answer is then simple.
you use another OS that will let you view the HD content without restriction.
the only problem might be, the studios won't let any OS vendor view their HD content without DRM crippling.
so we'll have to wait and see.
personally, any amount of DRM is too much. if a customer buys a product, any artificial restriction i would consider a product defect.
except that apple ties its OS to their hardware... that's bigger crap than ms has ever pulled. well, until vista at least.
if you buy a piece of software off of a store shelf, what business is it of the vendor to prevent you using it in a manner the customer sees fit?
clearly, neither ms or apple wanna give you software freedom. to do so would mean they make less money. apple is only currently less evil than ms because ms if far bigger and far more abusive using the powers gained from its virtual monopoly. but if you look back, the apple of the 80's and 90's was not the kind bunny rabbit we perceive them today.
proprietary software has far too many restrictions, real and artificial to be the ultimate inheritor of human computing.
he's absolutely speaking the truth.
he never HONESTLY threw a chair.
all the times he's done it, it was dishonestly.
if you're not a big fan of idiots, why don't you read the complaints instead of just assuming the problem is something other than it is.
these nanos are being scratched far more easily than most people imagined. people are saying they've had them scratched just by the fabric of their pockets, let alone keys, pens. and scratching a good looking player (one if its selling points) so easily defeats the claim that it is well manufactured.
it's shoddy workmanship.
even if apple replaces the damaged nanos... they're going to get another shoddy nano in its place.
the only problem with this is, apple won't do anything about this unless they are under financial distress due to a lawsuit.
corporations never do anything unless they legally have to.
if you have to place your cool looking player in an ugly case, making it bigger and heavier... you've already lost a good deal of the reason to get one in the first place.
perhaps if you had a nano and an anecdote to go with it, it might be worth reading.
nano != 4G ipod
then how about a pass for apple?
clearly, they did nothing wrong.
customers are explicitly told not to look/breathe at/on them funny in the nano EULA.
if your significant other doesn't realize that the diamond trade is run by criminals and buying extremely abundant diamonds at 5 billion percent profit, then that significant other isn't worth hanging on to if they don't change their mind when listening to these arguments.
and neither are you if you buy into the propoganda.
a blood-on-the-hands monopoly is forever.
RIAA+MPAA member vs the great satan of the software world.
hmmm. which one is the lesser evil?
punch the lucifer and win 10,000 dollars!
hd-dvd also uses "blue rays".
the wavelength of the laser shouldn't be the reason you choose one over another.
if people were smart, they wouldn't choose either.
DRM crippled media is in no way beneficial to the public.
people are supporting the RIAA/MPAA member sony over ms...
oh the irony.
satan is also not ms (though not by much).
doesn't make sense to support satan though.
and yes, companies who deny you your property rights are rightfully regarded as evil. and that's a lot of companies.