I buy 13 dollar power supplies KNOWING they will die in 3-6 months.
Err, why? In 2 years when you have sunk ~50 bucks into shitty power supplies, my reasonably priced one will still be running, with more years left on it.
I noticed about 10 years ago CDs became very easy to scratch not the bottom but the top. I wonder if this was by design to produce more sales? If so then the recording industry owes the consumers money
Actually, the "top" of the CD is more important than the bottom. The actual data is burned into the very thin layer of writeable material thats on the "bottom" of the top layer of the CD. Try scratching off the pretty picture from a music CD and see if it plays.
It's even worse that that, he can't even read the pages he links. From the matroska project front page (Emphasis mine):
First, it is essential to clarify exactly "What an Audio/Video container is", to avoid any misunderstandings:
* It is NOT a video or audio compression format (video codec)
At first I thought this qualified as a good ISP. Then I went to their homepage and my eyes were assaulted by the terrible color schemes, and now I'm blind >
I too am afraid that Microsoft will attempt to quash any attempts to provide inter operability between different IM providers and will likely succeed since it will control the lion's share of IM accounts. Although Google has the lion's share of the search market, they at least provide or try to provide inter operability with other companies and do not try to lock competitors out of a particular business model.
While not having interoperability between IM clients sucks, thats still not limiting consumer's ability to freely access competitor's IM services.
I would imagine it depends on what their definition of "educational" boils down to. Sure, there is something to be said about music appreciation, but is 100 gigs of the latest shit entirely necessary for it? What genres of music are covered under music appreciation? Is there a time limit on determining "appreciation" and just listening to the new release of some artist?
IANAL, but just because something has a technical definition doesn't mean it can't a completely different meaning when used in a legal context. Besides, you would still have to argue that listening to the latest Crappy McPop artist is educational or scientific in use.
But the key part is, you don't lose any paid time. Downloading the demos, trailers, etc will all be there until XBL crumbles. Someone who purchased a three month Gold membership only has three months to do those Gold activities.
Seeing as you don't actually pay anything for the Silver service, vs the Gold, I would consider this a bonus to silver members, assuming they get it. The free game is compensation for lost ability to use the services you paid for, namely multiplayer online gaming.
Looks to me like they just want to make sure that people don't embed their pages within a frame and claim it as their own. Linking to a site isn't the same as using the content of that site.
One owner of a local music shop near me routinely sends his employees to the big stores to buy stock for his shelves, because it's a better deal than he can get from his supplier. How screwed up is that?
In the same vein, back when I was in high school, my parents were in charge of running the concession stand during football games, so my mother dealt with a Coke rep to get deals on the 20 oz bottles, cans, and fountain canisters of soda. She would routinely be able to get a cheaper price on the 20oz bottles and 12 oz cans at kroger versus buying them directly through Coke. The rep that we bought the other stuff through found this hilarious.
It's probably because of the number of active connections. Some routers / modems just can't handle large numbers of connections, or huge bursts of data. I've had internet cut out on me when downloading a torrent at 100kb/s, purely because I had TONS of connections that were all going slowly, and the router just freaked out.
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Err, why? In 2 years when you have sunk ~50 bucks into shitty power supplies, my reasonably priced one will still be running, with more years left on it.
Actually, the "top" of the CD is more important than the bottom. The actual data is burned into the very thin layer of writeable material thats on the "bottom" of the top layer of the CD. Try scratching off the pretty picture from a music CD and see if it plays.
At first I thought this qualified as a good ISP. Then I went to their homepage and my eyes were assaulted by the terrible color schemes, and now I'm blind >
I hope you know that your parent and the parent of your other comment about immunization records are the same person.
With the other 5 people close to him NOT taking the "easy deal", somehow I think the competition will have plenty of customers on either side.
They are not infringing, stop buying into the NFL's scare tactics. Copyright law does not let you dictate what size device you watch TV on.
the "article" It's a fucking paragraph, and 5 of the 6 links it has are back to itself. What a crock
I would imagine it depends on what their definition of "educational" boils down to. Sure, there is something to be said about music appreciation, but is 100 gigs of the latest shit entirely necessary for it? What genres of music are covered under music appreciation? Is there a time limit on determining "appreciation" and just listening to the new release of some artist?
IANAL, but just because something has a technical definition doesn't mean it can't a completely different meaning when used in a legal context. Besides, you would still have to argue that listening to the latest Crappy McPop artist is educational or scientific in use.
Putting two games on the same disc isn't the same thing as combining two games, like the parent was suggesting.
But the key part is, you don't lose any paid time. Downloading the demos, trailers, etc will all be there until XBL crumbles. Someone who purchased a three month Gold membership only has three months to do those Gold activities.
Seeing as you don't actually pay anything for the Silver service, vs the Gold, I would consider this a bonus to silver members, assuming they get it. The free game is compensation for lost ability to use the services you paid for, namely multiplayer online gaming.
I would hate to work for whatever company that doesn't pay your cell phone data usage bill, when used for business purposes.
Unless my understanding of corporate gmail is off, which it could be, you still send emails over your external internet connection, to gmail servers.
I'm sure living 10 minutes from a large nuclear power plant has nothing to do with a lot of services being available....
Looks to me like they just want to make sure that people don't embed their pages within a frame and claim it as their own. Linking to a site isn't the same as using the content of that site.
In the same vein, back when I was in high school, my parents were in charge of running the concession stand during football games, so my mother dealt with a Coke rep to get deals on the 20 oz bottles, cans, and fountain canisters of soda. She would routinely be able to get a cheaper price on the 20oz bottles and 12 oz cans at kroger versus buying them directly through Coke. The rep that we bought the other stuff through found this hilarious.
It's probably because of the number of active connections. Some routers / modems just can't handle large numbers of connections, or huge bursts of data. I've had internet cut out on me when downloading a torrent at 100kb/s, purely because I had TONS of connections that were all going slowly, and the router just freaked out.
Heh, I would have loved that question. I always felt dirty teaching those hand holding classes to kids in Intro to CS 1/2
It's not exactly stolen if you signed it away. It may be a shitty / un-enforceable clause, but you should treat it as such.
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There is indeed content silver members can't get. Any online play.