If paper advertising came in the sheer bulk that spam does, filling my porch if I'm gone for a week and causing the post office to start burning my mail instead of delivering it, I'd dislike it as much as I dislike spam.
I had the same thought. It is acutally a lot easier to handle spam. Just one click of the mouse and it is gone. Compare that to having to sort through paper spam, which you have to open, sort into recyclable or not, and then take it out to the curb.
The problem is quantity. I currently get 0-3 pieces of paper spam a day. If that was all the spam I got, it would still be annoying (but less so than my paper spam), but not crippling like spam can become.
Yeah, except for this to work, the terrorists would have to wade through all of the spam looking for the right ones. That would take a lot of effort, and probably would have to match some sort of pattern, which the good guys could probably learn too.
Office software? Everybody needs that, so Corel and Lotus can go out of business.
Microsoft should simply bundle MS Office with Windows and save us another purchase. Oh, most OEM's do that already?
It is interesting that in this instance, the hypothetical position is not that MS Office should suck it up and get replaced by free alternatives.
If you asked people if they would rather have their OEM install OO.org or pay $100 more for a bundled MS Office, many would chose OO.org. More people should be aware of the hidden costs of Microsofts monopoly and their power in distributing software.
Microsoft, as a monopoly, can exert tremendous pressure to keep itself in the lead. Dell has enough resources that they could develop their own version of linux with twice the functionality out of the box at half the cost. However, I suspect the reason that they don't do this is that they fear losing the deep discounts that microsoft is giving them.
You are using the comapny's business model to determine whether or not something should be illegal? You are basically saying that because live shows are somewhat different from studio work, it makes the situation different, legally. That doesn't make much sense to me.
In my mind, both are copyright infringment (not theft), however, neither should be punished severly, unless it is on a massive scale.
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I had the same thought. It is acutally a lot easier to handle spam. Just one click of the mouse and it is gone. Compare that to having to sort through paper spam, which you have to open, sort into recyclable or not, and then take it out to the curb.
The problem is quantity. I currently get 0-3 pieces of paper spam a day. If that was all the spam I got, it would still be annoying (but less so than my paper spam), but not crippling like spam can become.
Yeah, except for this to work, the terrorists would have to wade through all of the spam looking for the right ones. That would take a lot of effort, and probably would have to match some sort of pattern, which the good guys could probably learn too.
Just remember that typical DVD players are not designed to take the rigors of the road. You may experience a lot of skips and read errors.
You may want to invest in a more portable one that may be designed to be bumped around a bit.
I have seen some branded as BenQ on ebay, although I have no idea if they are any good.
If you asked people if they would rather have their OEM install OO.org or pay $100 more for a bundled MS Office, many would chose OO.org. More people should be aware of the hidden costs of Microsofts monopoly and their power in distributing software.
Microsoft, as a monopoly, can exert tremendous pressure to keep itself in the lead. Dell has enough resources that they could develop their own version of linux with twice the functionality out of the box at half the cost. However, I suspect the reason that they don't do this is that they fear losing the deep discounts that microsoft is giving them.
You are using the comapny's business model to determine whether or not something should be illegal? You are basically saying that because live shows are somewhat different from studio work, it makes the situation different, legally. That doesn't make much sense to me.
In my mind, both are copyright infringment (not theft), however, neither should be punished severly, unless it is on a massive scale.