You can't give instructions on imagination. So what if there are instructions? You mean you can't build anything else just because the set was intended to build a specific thing? My son will build and rebuild the "intended" model a couple times, and THEN he gets creative. Those Star Wars sets have some pretty unique pieces. He has a blast with them.
Running the GPS on a phone eats up the battery, I wouldn't assume any phone company would be purposefully sabotaging the battery life of its own products to piss off its customers.
Some observations from a Pre owner. The GPS is on all the time by default (one reason for the Pre's reported poor battery life). When the GPS is off, it still can get a general idea where you are (this based on the fact when you open the Google Maps application it knows what city I'm in with a large circle indicating the "margin of error"). Turning the GPS off improves battery life significantly, so I deduce that the GPS receiver is really off.
I don't see the logic of your point. Even though "Happy Birthday" and "Steamboat Willie" are copyrighted, they're STILL a part of our culture as you have pointed out.
From these examples you've shown that copyright is NOT a limitation of the arts in our culture.
This is nothing new. N-Dex is simply replacing NIBRS (National Incident Based Reporting System) with the new NIEM (National Information Exchange Model) XML standard. Take off the tin foil hats everyone.
"Since scientology doesn't actually own these devices any longer"
That's an assumption. What if they only "lease" or "license" these devices? Then these former members, etc. are trying to sell items that they do NOT own and the CoS does.
However, like a bubble, it only takes a tiny event to make it burst. If Ebay says "Hey, we paid too much," that makes the next company take a look at their acquisition and say "Gee, I guess we paid too much as well." So it goes until... POP!
With this the government could attempt to "steal" personal information from private companies. If they're caught, they can say they were "investigating" violations of the DATA Act. If they're not caught, they get all the private info they want.
Remember when they had the numbers that counted how many millions were served? Every couple months the number would go up.
I bet he thinks eBay feedback ratings, amazon.com ratings and the slashdot rating model are immature too. People want to know what other people think about products and services.
In a market where "everyone uses Internet Explorer" I think the number of downloads do matter in its advertising and creating buzz. Even if it's a rough estimate, it illustrates that Firefox must be a good enough product that people are switching.
FYI: Mormon Seminary is "Release Time" from High School. The school sees it as the student isn't at the school for that period. This is true because the Seminary in on church property near the school, NOT on school property. Outside of Utah and some surounding areas, Seminary is taught early before school starts. Usually at a church or home of the instructor.
It is a good system. Let the schools teach science, let church teach faith, and let each individual figure it out for themselves.
Charles Winchester (sp?) on MASH would say "I do one thing at a time. I do it very well. And then I move on."
Although PDAs are cool and nifty doing a bunch of things, they don't do anything well. Dayplanners are easier to take notes and schedule day-to-day tasks. Watches are better for telling time. Jump drives are easier to mobile storage. Ipods have more storage, simpler interface and better sound quality for music. Laptops are better for internet communication and business applications.
I think most people just want the best tool for the job and not extra tools they don't need.
Just think! Every computer around the world (home, work, laptops, and "Mactells" might as well ship with the same hardware specs) will be a sweet game machine. Think of the kind of LAN traffic corporations will see now.
At least it won't be surfing the web that will kill productivity.
Is Rockstar going to sue the Mod writer? Rockstar and Take-Two are taking a pretty good hit financially on this now. This sounds right up the DMCA's alley.
If they do, it will kill modding and extra revenue that brings in. Of course if they don't, it will appear as if the Hot Coffee content was intentional.
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You can't give instructions on imagination. So what if there are instructions? You mean you can't build anything else just because the set was intended to build a specific thing? My son will build and rebuild the "intended" model a couple times, and THEN he gets creative. Those Star Wars sets have some pretty unique pieces. He has a blast with them.
Running the GPS on a phone eats up the battery, I wouldn't assume any phone company would be purposefully sabotaging the battery life of its own products to piss off its customers.
Some observations from a Pre owner. The GPS is on all the time by default (one reason for the Pre's reported poor battery life). When the GPS is off, it still can get a general idea where you are (this based on the fact when you open the Google Maps application it knows what city I'm in with a large circle indicating the "margin of error"). Turning the GPS off improves battery life significantly, so I deduce that the GPS receiver is really off.
Or if the pirate was selling the game for a lower price than the copyright holder because the pirate had no costs. Likely.
Well, considering what he was doing, he might have been at that point already?
I don't see the logic of your point. Even though "Happy Birthday" and "Steamboat Willie" are copyrighted, they're STILL a part of our culture as you have pointed out.
From these examples you've shown that copyright is NOT a limitation of the arts in our culture.
Don't forget Google Moon!
This is nothing new. N-Dex is simply replacing NIBRS (National Incident Based Reporting System) with the new NIEM (National Information Exchange Model) XML standard. Take off the tin foil hats everyone.
"Since scientology doesn't actually own these devices any longer"
That's an assumption. What if they only "lease" or "license" these devices? Then these former members, etc. are trying to sell items that they do NOT own and the CoS does.
However, like a bubble, it only takes a tiny event to make it burst. If Ebay says "Hey, we paid too much," that makes the next company take a look at their acquisition and say "Gee, I guess we paid too much as well." So it goes until... POP!
Google demo and info here: http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html
What? You're not counting "Howard the Duck?"
Wait. Carl Sagan did an interview in Playboy!?! Why hasn't Slashdotters brought this up before? I would think it would legendary. ;-)
It brings a whole new meaning to their new slogan after the merge with SBC. Now we know where our world was delivered.
With this the government could attempt to "steal" personal information from private companies. If they're caught, they can say they were "investigating" violations of the DATA Act. If they're not caught, they get all the private info they want.
This is EXACTLY why the conservative groups are against it.
... where "billions and billions served."
Remember when they had the numbers that counted how many millions were served? Every couple months the number would go up.
I bet he thinks eBay feedback ratings, amazon.com ratings and the slashdot rating model are immature too. People want to know what other people think about products and services.
In a market where "everyone uses Internet Explorer" I think the number of downloads do matter in its advertising and creating buzz. Even if it's a rough estimate, it illustrates that Firefox must be a good enough product that people are switching.
FYI: Mormon Seminary is "Release Time" from High School. The school sees it as the student isn't at the school for that period. This is true because the Seminary in on church property near the school, NOT on school property. Outside of Utah and some surounding areas, Seminary is taught early before school starts. Usually at a church or home of the instructor.
It is a good system. Let the schools teach science, let church teach faith, and let each individual figure it out for themselves.
However, those most recent 5 "diggs" can be replaced with new "diggs" a few times over before the next story on Slashdot is posted.
Charles Winchester (sp?) on MASH would say "I do one thing at a time. I do it very well. And then I move on."
Although PDAs are cool and nifty doing a bunch of things, they don't do anything well. Dayplanners are easier to take notes and schedule day-to-day tasks. Watches are better for telling time. Jump drives are easier to mobile storage. Ipods have more storage, simpler interface and better sound quality for music. Laptops are better for internet communication and business applications.
I think most people just want the best tool for the job and not extra tools they don't need.
Chicken Little opens November 4th!
Or finding a way to get us off oil completely.
Just think! Every computer around the world (home, work, laptops, and "Mactells" might as well ship with the same hardware specs) will be a sweet game machine. Think of the kind of LAN traffic corporations will see now.
At least it won't be surfing the web that will kill productivity.
Unix interoperability integrated into the OS? They must be using UNIX source code. ;-)
Somebody tell SCO!
Is Rockstar going to sue the Mod writer? Rockstar and Take-Two are taking a pretty good hit financially on this now. This sounds right up the DMCA's alley.
If they do, it will kill modding and extra revenue that brings in. Of course if they don't, it will appear as if the Hot Coffee content was intentional.
Aren't they taking this "Burning Man" festival a little too far?