Bill Gates uses three monitors and mentioned that taking even one away would decrease his productivity significantly. That could be a good argument to use.
What we have to ask ourselves is WHY do we continue to elect politicians that support this type of active spying on the citizenry?
It is because people vote for politicians based on issues that affect their salaries (like minimum wage), local or national or global problems, economic problems, or because they like the politician or because they're just voting for the party and blah blah blah. It's the same reason why we don't vote politicians just for their opinions on video games. People just put more emphasis and importance on other things such as minimum wage and global warming instead of some silly artist's pop music.
In short, people don't vote for politicians for this kind of crap because there's other crap that's more important.
Eventually, if this tax is approved, the entire weight of the tax is going to shifted onto the consumers. Why must the consumers be punished by the same people they're purchasing music from?
And people wonder why I never listen to/buy new music these days.
I don't know about you, but when somebody distributes something, which I worked hard to produce and sell, freely onto the Internet, I get really upset. Not only because I cannot make a living now, but also because people have absolutely no respect for my lifestyle. That doesn't mean that I support the RIAA and MPAA's tactics, but the people who say stuff like "Oh, piracy isn't stealing" (I'm not referring to just music here) are just as stupid. (Note that I said "piracy" instead of whatever terms you radicals use).
And 500 million pounds is WAAAAY too much to prolong your piracy activities. You could just purchase legal copies of all the content for fifty years and still have some leftover.
Actually...A surprising number of people do not want to have the URL of some sites appear in the drop-down box, so they resort to just using Google to access said URLs. More Firefox users than IE users do that because unlike IE they cannot just key-in Ctrl+O to type in a URL that won't appear in the drag-down box.
"The test results indicate that users want Google-style speed, function, and accuracy from all of the Web sites they visit, and they want it now," according to the SIRC report. "Unfortunately, many Web sites and their servers cannot deliver this."
So...in short, this "Mouse Rage Syndrome" is caused because of lag. The researchers should have gotten about 24 Counter-Strike players to play and then make only ONE user have a three-digit ping. "Rage" would be an understatement when explaining the resulting chaos.
Haven't you heard? Nintendo hardware is more durable than most. Have you ever had your parents chuck your GBA out the window, watch it roll sideways down the hill and land in some bushes, retrieve it, and see that it's still intact AND working withonly three small scratches on the screen?
Heck, they're even MORE durable than the televisions!!!
If this patent goes through, then wouldn't that give Microsoft incentive to start suing blog sites such as Livejournal, Blogspot, and Myspace for royalties because "in a sense, blogs are like e-mails except more people read them"?
What's wrong with the Morse code? Personally, I think that learning the Morse code should be a requirement for radio operation at the very least (or any communications course in general) because the Morse code is very simple to learn and use, and because it is nearly universally recognized. Telling radio operators that they don't need to know Morse code is like telling scientists that they don't need to know the periodic table by heart.
I wonder how the RIAA is expecting to get paid from a MS patient no matter how autonomous and able-bodied she is. Family? Friends? Loans? Give me a break. And honestly, I think the RIAA is losing money from all of these lawsuits being as long as they are.
Also, AOL only gave a list of names associated with IP addresses, so how does that translate to "This user downloaded music with these IP addresses at these dates"? Some justice.
When Edison first made an vote counting machine, the patent office rejected his invention citing concerns that could lead to vote tampering and yet, over a hundred years later, we have all of these problems...Maybe we should just GET RID OF ELECTRONIC VOTING until somebody can make uncrackable DRM software.
Heck, they could even surf child porn sites from your machine and use your credit card and identity to purchase access to such sites. Who is to say that the hacker isn't the pedophile?
The people the FBI had arrested were molesting children who the pedophiles could "access" nearly at will. Surely an investigation would show that fact. RTFA kthx.
I sure hope the RIAA won't use these figures as an excuse to restart their litigation campaigns again. Given the RIAA's history, I wouldn't be surprised though...
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Their responsibility is making less expensive decisions, or less wasteful decisions
... a $92,000 bill. How efficient of them.
And look what their "less expensive decisions" got them
Bill Gates uses three monitors and mentioned that taking even one away would decrease his productivity significantly. That could be a good argument to use.
Nonono...they TELL you that it's unlimited, then slip in the 5GB limit into the fine print. It's false advertising.
VIRTUAL sex favors at the virtual strip club.
Just great...now asian parents all over the world have another reason to push their kids overseas into the American education system...
"Because the world's richest man also got a degree from Harvard."
Watch as cheating on the SATs rises exponentially from South-Eastern Asia.
SG-1 did visual graphics, not a full-fledged simulation.
If that technology gets on a super-exo-suit, warfare as we know would change drastically.
Maybe, ironically, Popular Mechanics wasn't as popular as it seems to be.
What we have to ask ourselves is WHY do we continue to elect politicians that support this type of active spying on the citizenry?
It is because people vote for politicians based on issues that affect their salaries (like minimum wage), local or national or global problems, economic problems, or because they like the politician or because they're just voting for the party and blah blah blah. It's the same reason why we don't vote politicians just for their opinions on video games. People just put more emphasis and importance on other things such as minimum wage and global warming instead of some silly artist's pop music.
In short, people don't vote for politicians for this kind of crap because there's other crap that's more important.
Eventually, if this tax is approved, the entire weight of the tax is going to shifted onto the consumers. Why must the consumers be punished by the same people they're purchasing music from? And people wonder why I never listen to/buy new music these days.
I don't know about you, but when somebody distributes something, which I worked hard to produce and sell, freely onto the Internet, I get really upset. Not only because I cannot make a living now, but also because people have absolutely no respect for my lifestyle. That doesn't mean that I support the RIAA and MPAA's tactics, but the people who say stuff like "Oh, piracy isn't stealing" (I'm not referring to just music here) are just as stupid. (Note that I said "piracy" instead of whatever terms you radicals use). And 500 million pounds is WAAAAY too much to prolong your piracy activities. You could just purchase legal copies of all the content for fifty years and still have some leftover.
You might have been feeling the wrong spots for some of the plasmas.
I'm sure Slashdot is one of them.
Actually...A surprising number of people do not want to have the URL of some sites appear in the drop-down box, so they resort to just using Google to access said URLs. More Firefox users than IE users do that because unlike IE they cannot just key-in Ctrl+O to type in a URL that won't appear in the drag-down box.
"The test results indicate that users want Google-style speed, function, and accuracy from all of the Web sites they visit, and they want it now," according to the SIRC report. "Unfortunately, many Web sites and their servers cannot deliver this."
So...in short, this "Mouse Rage Syndrome" is caused because of lag. The researchers should have gotten about 24 Counter-Strike players to play and then make only ONE user have a three-digit ping. "Rage" would be an understatement when explaining the resulting chaos.
It seems as if it is near indistructable.
Haven't you heard? Nintendo hardware is more durable than most. Have you ever had your parents chuck your GBA out the window, watch it roll sideways down the hill and land in some bushes, retrieve it, and see that it's still intact AND working withonly three small scratches on the screen?
Heck, they're even MORE durable than the televisions!!!
If this patent goes through, then wouldn't that give Microsoft incentive to start suing blog sites such as Livejournal, Blogspot, and Myspace for royalties because "in a sense, blogs are like e-mails except more people read them"?
What's wrong with the Morse code? Personally, I think that learning the Morse code should be a requirement for radio operation at the very least (or any communications course in general) because the Morse code is very simple to learn and use, and because it is nearly universally recognized. Telling radio operators that they don't need to know Morse code is like telling scientists that they don't need to know the periodic table by heart.
I wonder how the RIAA is expecting to get paid from a MS patient no matter how autonomous and able-bodied she is. Family? Friends? Loans? Give me a break. And honestly, I think the RIAA is losing money from all of these lawsuits being as long as they are.
Also, AOL only gave a list of names associated with IP addresses, so how does that translate to "This user downloaded music with these IP addresses at these dates"? Some justice.
A lot of /. readers are full of hot air, so I think Smita is right in saying that there is "too much air flow" in /.
When Edison first made an vote counting machine, the patent office rejected his invention citing concerns that could lead to vote tampering and yet, over a hundred years later, we have all of these problems...Maybe we should just GET RID OF ELECTRONIC VOTING until somebody can make uncrackable DRM software.
Heck, they could even surf child porn sites from your machine and use your credit card and identity to purchase access to such sites. Who is to say that the hacker isn't the pedophile?
The people the FBI had arrested were molesting children who the pedophiles could "access" nearly at will. Surely an investigation would show that fact. RTFA kthx.
I sure hope the RIAA won't use these figures as an excuse to restart their litigation campaigns again. Given the RIAA's history, I wouldn't be surprised though...
Not really...If I know the government, they'll require MMO companies to give "temporary and restricted" GM accounts.
As the saying goes, "Imitation is the greatest form of flattery." I think Miyamoto was hinting at something when he said "flattering."