But in the case of AllOfMP3 I am knowingly giving money to someone else when I know the artist will not see any measureable amount from it.
Isn't this just the same as with RIAA? Or at least, the only numbers I've seen (or heard of) show artists recieving only a tiny amount of the profit on the CD.
Of course, I could have been mislead by slash-censoring and be completely wrong. If so, please correct me.
But it's not about the EULA - it's about restrictions downloading the program in the first place. From the article (in fact, the first paragraph):
A maker of surveillance software is using a product download agreement to attempt to bar detection by anti-spyware tools, raising questions about the legal scope of such agreements.
So, according to the article, the anti-spyware people shouldn't have even been able to get a copy of the program to classify it as spyware. Is it possible to classify a program as spyware without even looking at the program?
On the other hand, remember that Apple includes iLife with MacOS.
No, it doesn't. Apple provides iLife with the computer. If you go out and buy a plain copy of Mac OS X, that's all you'll get. (Well, sort of - but no more stuff than Microsoft include, i.e. browser, email, etc. iLife is sold separately.)
If you're careful about what software you install (which includes avoiding ones that Internet Explorer accidentally installs), then Windows generally won't pick up spyware - if, however, you go off the beaten track and start downloading and installing various random programs, you'll more than likely end up with spyware or similar.
There is WikiBooks, but that doesn't seem to have gotten that far yet. I guess they could be made into PDF's or the like, and distributed along with the laptops. Of course, there's also Project Gutenberg, but that would really only be useful for courses like English, or mebbe History (in English still, though; language will likely be a problem).
Does that mean that if you move from one calling area to another, you have to change your mobile number?
All the mobile numbers here start with 07..., whereas landlines start with 01... . So you know instantly which type of phone you're calling.
I've actually switched to purely using a mobile phone this year, rather than having a landline. For the amount of calls I make, it works out cheaper for me (landlines cost £15/month, calls and handset extra, while my mobile's costing me £17/month, with 500 free minutes and a free £200-odd handset). Yes, it means people calling me will pay more - but they can either use their free minutes, or get me to call them back.
... so much that I started something similar off a short while ago, but it never got off the ground. Several reasons for that, the main one being that I could never figure out how to get it from being a small one-person-editing site into a huge million-people-editing site. Now I know: I should have posted it to slashdot! (serious side-note: if the site does become a success, I'd be interested to hear the complete tale of how it became a success)
Another major problem I had: there's already some content on TV episodes on the wikipedia? Wouldn't it have been best just to work on those, rather than having a whole new site?
As a side-note: anyone have use for the wikiepguide.com domain I registered?
From a UK perspective, that sounds pretty backwards - here, it never costs anything to receive a call (either on a landline or mobile, unless the charge is reversed which's rare). Meanwhile, a call from a landline to a mobile will generally cost a pretty penny (35p or 50p/minute), and vice-versa is normally between free (inclusive minutes) or about 10p/minute.
I'm sure I remember a time when one of Google's main selling points was something like: "We only do searching. Nothing else. We don't have a horribly complicated home page, and we don't clutter things with a myriad of other [generally useless] products."
Now: they have a simple homepage, but a whole host of features the next step in. To me, that seems to be a bit of a contradiction.
I recently sold my Mac Mini on eBay. For some reason, it actually sold for slightly more than the purchase price for a brand new one (despite not having Tiger installed). Am still confused about that.
"It's long been known that Intel run a little hot, so Zalman have gone extreme with a cooling solution that finally does the biz.
Pumping an impressive 25 cubic metres of air per second Zalman are confident that the 'Big Boy Turbo Mega Fan 2' will be able to keep any Intel CPU, up to and including the Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz, running cool in even the warmest conditions.
Developed with the help of the British Aerospace wind tunnel engineers, the BBTMF can pump enough air to pop you double glazing out, so it comes with several precautionary notes, mainly involving the suction and loss of small pets whilst in the vicinity of your machine.
Drawing an impressive 1400Watts of power, Zalman include a full instruction booklet on how to daisy chain 5 300W PSU's together to power the fan, and you get 50 starter cartridges free to get it spinning in the first place. Of course, you'll need a serious case upgrade too, and we would recommend the CoolerMaster 821 Garage, which comes with a tasteful variety of electronic doors and leaves enough room for even the largest GFX cards in SLI and a Nissan Micra too."
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But Apple doesn't ship macs capable of out-the-box radio recording, which is what a DVR is to video.
Ah, but macs can connect to anything.
As long as it's a computer. And has alternative connection methods than floppy disks, or serial, or...
But in the case of AllOfMP3 I am knowingly giving money to someone else when I know the artist will not see any measureable amount from it.
Isn't this just the same as with RIAA? Or at least, the only numbers I've seen (or heard of) show artists recieving only a tiny amount of the profit on the CD.
Of course, I could have been mislead by slash-censoring and be completely wrong. If so, please correct me.
Your "yes" button doesn't appear to work. :-(
But it's not about the EULA - it's about restrictions downloading the program in the first place. From the article (in fact, the first paragraph):
A maker of surveillance software is using a product download agreement to attempt to bar detection by anti-spyware tools, raising questions about the legal scope of such agreements.
So, according to the article, the anti-spyware people shouldn't have even been able to get a copy of the program to classify it as spyware. Is it possible to classify a program as spyware without even looking at the program?
Using analogies to compare the Internet with real life is like trying to rationalize the universe with a bag of marbles.
It's all a load of balls?
On the other hand, remember that Apple includes iLife with MacOS.
No, it doesn't. Apple provides iLife with the computer. If you go out and buy a plain copy of Mac OS X, that's all you'll get. (Well, sort of - but no more stuff than Microsoft include, i.e. browser, email, etc. iLife is sold separately.)
If you're careful about what software you install (which includes avoiding ones that Internet Explorer accidentally installs), then Windows generally won't pick up spyware - if, however, you go off the beaten track and start downloading and installing various random programs, you'll more than likely end up with spyware or similar.
There is WikiBooks, but that doesn't seem to have gotten that far yet. I guess they could be made into PDF's or the like, and distributed along with the laptops. Of course, there's also Project Gutenberg, but that would really only be useful for courses like English, or mebbe History (in English still, though; language will likely be a problem).
You're welcome to it if you have a use for it.
Does that mean that if you move from one calling area to another, you have to change your mobile number?
All the mobile numbers here start with 07..., whereas landlines start with 01... . So you know instantly which type of phone you're calling.
I've actually switched to purely using a mobile phone this year, rather than having a landline. For the amount of calls I make, it works out cheaper for me (landlines cost £15/month, calls and handset extra, while my mobile's costing me £17/month, with 500 free minutes and a free £200-odd handset). Yes, it means people calling me will pay more - but they can either use their free minutes, or get me to call them back.
... so much that I started something similar off a short while ago, but it never got off the ground. Several reasons for that, the main one being that I could never figure out how to get it from being a small one-person-editing site into a huge million-people-editing site. Now I know: I should have posted it to slashdot! (serious side-note: if the site does become a success, I'd be interested to hear the complete tale of how it became a success) Another major problem I had: there's already some content on TV episodes on the wikipedia? Wouldn't it have been best just to work on those, rather than having a whole new site? As a side-note: anyone have use for the wikiepguide.com domain I registered?
From a UK perspective, that sounds pretty backwards - here, it never costs anything to receive a call (either on a landline or mobile, unless the charge is reversed which's rare). Meanwhile, a call from a landline to a mobile will generally cost a pretty penny (35p or 50p/minute), and vice-versa is normally between free (inclusive minutes) or about 10p/minute.
I'm sure I remember a time when one of Google's main selling points was something like: "We only do searching. Nothing else. We don't have a horribly complicated home page, and we don't clutter things with a myriad of other [generally useless] products."
Now: they have a simple homepage, but a whole host of features the next step in. To me, that seems to be a bit of a contradiction.
"I'm sure if only 5% of slashdot readers do this there should be a noticeable effect."
For one thing, it'd probably overload his mail servers with the sheer amount of emails he'd receive; Slashdotted through e-mail.
You could always say that if you've used it, you've been Vista'd.
I recently sold my Mac Mini on eBay. For some reason, it actually sold for slightly more than the purchase price for a brand new one (despite not having Tiger installed). Am still confused about that.
Serenity trailer, available in 480p, 720p and 1080p to stream, or 1080p to download.
Batman trailer, also available in 480p, 720p and 1080p to stream.
And, Apple's HD Gallery. Includes the above trailers, plus a few other 1080p and 720p short films.
And a few decades down the line, no-one bothers moving from their armchair. Why bother, when you can ask your robot to go get whatever you want?
Obesity and muscle wastage, here we come *...
* Excluding America; some of them are already there.
"It's long been known that Intel run a little hot, so Zalman have gone extreme with a cooling solution that finally does the biz.
Pumping an impressive 25 cubic metres of air per second Zalman are confident that the 'Big Boy Turbo Mega Fan 2' will be able to keep any Intel CPU, up to and including the Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz, running cool in even the warmest conditions.
Developed with the help of the British Aerospace wind tunnel engineers, the BBTMF can pump enough air to pop you double glazing out, so it comes with several precautionary notes, mainly involving the suction and loss of small pets whilst in the vicinity of your machine.
Drawing an impressive 1400Watts of power, Zalman include a full instruction booklet on how to daisy chain 5 300W PSU's together to power the fan, and you get 50 starter cartridges free to get it spinning in the first place. Of course, you'll need a serious case upgrade too, and we would recommend the CoolerMaster 821 Garage, which comes with a tasteful variety of electronic doors and leaves enough room for even the largest GFX cards in SLI and a Nissan Micra too."
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Me, I misread it as: "Microsoft Offers Tools to Spam ISPs"
When did Jesus start making mobile phones?